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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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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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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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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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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
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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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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
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