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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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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
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus 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
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
Wilderness
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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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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Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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