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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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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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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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