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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
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Philosopher
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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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Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
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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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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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A good name is like precious ointment it filleth all round about, and will not easily away for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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