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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
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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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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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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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.
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