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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
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
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