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• Fortunes†come tumbling into some men ’s laps.

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• Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

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• Tennis is a game of no use in itself.

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• Of knowledge there is no satiety.

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• All good moral philosophy is but an handmaid to religion.

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• Did not one of the fathers in great indignation call poesy vinum daemonum?

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• But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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• A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.

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• The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

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• [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.

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• Time see meth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid.

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• Vain matter is worse than vain words.

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• Martin Luther…was enforced to a wake all antiquity and to call former times to his succour to make a party against the present time, so that the ancient authors both in divinity and in humanity which had long time slept in libraries began generally to be read and revolved.

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• Learned men…do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage, so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find them wanting in smaller.

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• So let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is further and further to discover the truth.

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• For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

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• Opportunity makes a thief.

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• I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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  Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

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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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