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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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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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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 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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I don't believe art is available it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper some to entertain the mind with variety and delight some for ornament and reputation some for victory and contention many for lucre and a livelihood and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
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Croesus said to Cambyses That peace was better than war because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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To suffering there is a limit to fearing, none.
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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
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