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Man was formed for society.

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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
Formed
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Much bending breaks the bow much unbending the mind.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life.
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death love slights it honor aspireth to it grief flieth to it.
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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
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To suffering there is a limit to fearing, none.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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