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I bequeath my soul to God... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures: It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man.
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No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
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It has been well said that 'the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self.'
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That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study.
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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No man in effect doth accompany with others but he learneth, ere he is aware, some gesture, voice, or fashion.
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A steady hand in military affairs is more requisite than in peace, because an error committed in war may prove irremediable.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it. For none deny, there is a God, but those, for whom it maketh that there were no God. It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man, than by this; that atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion, as if they fainted in it, within themselves, and would be glad to be strengthened, by the consent of others.
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
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The desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess: neither can angel or man come into danger by it.
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In regard of our deliverance past, and our danger present and to come, let us look up to God, and every man reform his own ways.
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Mr. Bettenham said that virtuous men were like some herbs and spices, that give not out their sweet smell till they be broken or crushed.
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The problem is, whether a man constantly and strongly believing that such a thing shall be, it don't help anything to the effecting of the thing.
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There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
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He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolors of death; but above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace."
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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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Born:
January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
Bio:
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
Known for:
Novum Organum (1620)
Essays (1597)
New Atlantis (1624)
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
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