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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
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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
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Viscount St. Alban
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.
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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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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.
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