Quote by Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. – Francis Bacon

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. – Francis Bacon

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