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New Atlantis (1624)
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The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
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