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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
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Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Baron of Verulam Bacon
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
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Viscount St. Alban
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
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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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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.
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