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Quotes from The World — Francis Bacon

1561–1626 England

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What then remains but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or, being born, to die?

The World (1629)

The world's a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span.

The World (1629)

Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

The World (1629)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francis Bacon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.