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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
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
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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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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
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Reading maketh a full man and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
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A little science estranges a man from God a lot of science brings him back.
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
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Great changes are easier than small ones.
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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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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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
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