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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
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Philosopher
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Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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