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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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – 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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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon

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