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Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Francis Bacon
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.
Francis Bacon
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
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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.
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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Riches are for spending.
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The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.
Francis Bacon