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Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Francis Bacon St. Albans
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Baron of Verulam Bacon
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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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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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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