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Time is the greatest innovator.

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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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Francis Bacon Saint Albans
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Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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To suffering there is a limit to fearing, none.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
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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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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death love slights it honor aspireth to it grief flieth to it.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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