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Francis Bacon
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“For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source