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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
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Philosopher
Politician
Writer
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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good and this is the foundation of all for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
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Defer not charities till death for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
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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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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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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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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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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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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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