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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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Writer
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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 mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
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A little science estranges a man from God a lot of science brings him back.
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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For knowledge, too, is itself power.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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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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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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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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I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
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