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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
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