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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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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
Secrecy
Mysteries
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Mystery

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
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