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Reading maketh a full man.

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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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Philosopher
Politician
Writer
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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For knowledge, too, is itself power.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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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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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.
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Science is but an image of the truth.
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To suffering there is a limit to fearing, none.
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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
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States are great engines moving slowly.
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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