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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
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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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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
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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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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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