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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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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
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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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It was a high speech of Seneca that The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
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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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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
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