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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
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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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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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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.
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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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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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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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