Francis Bacon (January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626) on Individual and Friends(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Philosopher, Statesman Who Served As Attorney General, Lord Chancellor Of England, Essayist, AKA: Lord Verulam
: An English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“...you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulfur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.”
Source: "The Essays: Religious Meditations, Places of Perswasion and Disswasion, Seene and Allowed," by Francis Bacon, 1597. Essay: Of Friendship
"The Essays: Religious Meditations, Places of Perswasion and Disswasion, Seene and Allowed," by Francis Bacon, 1597.
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