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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
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All colours will agree in the dark.
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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death love slights it honor aspireth to it grief flieth to it.
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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
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