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Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
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Defer not charities till death for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
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Croesus said to Cambyses That peace was better than war because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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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 poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
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