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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
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Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
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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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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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If you can talk about it, why paint it?
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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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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
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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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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
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