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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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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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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.
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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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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Time is the author of authors.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.
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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
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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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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
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