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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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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
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
Nothing
Anticipation
Except
Terrible
Fear

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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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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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.
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Nuptial love makes mankind friendly love perfects it but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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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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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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