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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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Viscount Saint Alban
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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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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
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Man was formed for society.
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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To suffering there is a limit to fearing, none.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
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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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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
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If you can talk about it, why paint it?
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