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Art is man added to Nature.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
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Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
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Viscount St. Alban
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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All will come out in the washing.
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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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