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• 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...
• Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
  -- 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...
• 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.)...
• 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.)...
• Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap. xvi...
• What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...