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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
Francis Bacon
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.
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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Francis Bacon -
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon
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Innovations, which are the births of time.
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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Francis Bacon
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It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
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States as great engines move slowly.
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
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The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Francis Bacon
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Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
Francis Bacon