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Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
Francis
Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
Francis Bacon
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
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I believe in deeply ordered chaos
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I would live to study, not study to live.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first because one cannot hold out that proportion.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.
Francis Bacon
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
Francis Bacon
All will come out in the washing.
Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
