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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.
Francis Bacon
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis Bacon -
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
Francis Bacon -
Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Francis Bacon -
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
Francis Bacon -
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
Francis Bacon -
Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.
Francis Bacon
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The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being as apt for it , as any foreing parts.
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Reading maketh a full man.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
Francis Bacon -
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon -
Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
Francis Bacon -
Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.
Francis Bacon