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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
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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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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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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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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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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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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
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Man was formed for society.
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.
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States are great engines moving slowly.
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
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