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• States as great engines move slowly.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book i, (1605.)...
• For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
  -- Francis Bacon in Advancement of Learning, I.i.3...
• Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book i, (1605.)...
• Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...