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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Former Lord Chancellor
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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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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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To suffering there is a limit to fearing, none.
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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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