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• Let judges also remember that Solomon ’s throne was supported by lions on both sides; let them be lions, but yet lions under the throne.

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• Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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• The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude.

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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• All colours will agree in the dark.

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• Death…openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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• There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it.

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

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• The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or 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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• Wise nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high: and therefore…exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

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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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• The voice of the people hath some divineness in it, else how should so many men agree to be of one mind?

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• The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one.Nay, it is obvious that when a man runs the wrong way, the more active and swift he is the further he will go astray.

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• It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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• For we cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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• It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence of discoveries, and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin, though recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder and the magnet [ie the compass]. For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world.

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• Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests by a power of its own.Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.

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• For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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• Empires and old women are more happy many times in their cures than learned physicians, because they are more exact and religious in holding to the composition and confection of tried medicines.

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• It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is most commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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Francis Bacon (265)

Birth:	22nd January, 1561
Death:	9th April, 1626
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher, Scientist, Statesman

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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

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