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• Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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  Believe, Air, Water

  Francis Bacon (1868). “The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works”, p.84

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• Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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  Communication, Long, Brain

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• God loveth the clean.

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  God Love, Cleanliness, Appearance

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• It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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  Holiday, Envy, Well Said

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• Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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  Atheist, Real, Hypocrite

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• It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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  Fear, Mind, Desire

  1625 Essays, no.19,'Of Empire'.

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• The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.98, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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  Anticipation, Terrible

  De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum bk. 2 (1623) See Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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  Circles, Medicine, Disease

  "Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis".

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• Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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  Money, Advice, Proud

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.460

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• If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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  Church, Guarantees, Literature

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• I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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  Regret, Paint, Starting

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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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  Plato, Imagination, Remembrance

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is a naked and open daylight

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  Truth, Naked, Daylight

  Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.1

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• The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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  Art, Nature, Freedom

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.82, Hackett Publishing

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• I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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  Rewards, Noblemen, Cleanliness

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• When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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  Country, Travel, Home

  Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.185

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• For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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  Rain, Garden, Rivers

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.107, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The remedy is worse than the disease.

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  Latin, Disease, Remedy

  Essays "Of Seditions and Troubles" (1625)

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• The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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  Science, Differences, Tree

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.93, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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  Moving, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1854). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.11

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• He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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  Pride, Cleanliness

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• Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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  Powerful, Passion, Wine

  "Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

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• Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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  Learning, Belief, Judgment

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.18

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• A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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  Opportunity, Men

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.107

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