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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
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Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Baron of Verulam Bacon
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Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
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