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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
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
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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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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
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Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
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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 always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
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