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• 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.)...
• Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• 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...
• 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 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...
• Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinio
  that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly....
• Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)