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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
Francis Bacon
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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
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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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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it and accordingly bend their wits.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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