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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.
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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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A good name is like precious ointment it filleth all round about, and will not easily away for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
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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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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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I believe in deeply ordered chaos
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
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