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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
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
Francis
Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
Riches
Spending
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge
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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first because one cannot hold out that proportion.
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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.
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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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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
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If you can talk about it, why paint it?
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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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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
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For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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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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