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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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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
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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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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
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Good fame is like fire when you have kindled you may easily preserve it but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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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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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
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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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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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If you can talk about it, why paint it?
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