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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
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Philosopher
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Reading maketh a full man.
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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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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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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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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
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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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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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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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