QUOTES by Francis Bacon
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.
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It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man's self.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ... but to weigh and consider.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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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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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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For the discovery of a man's self, by the tracts of his countenance, is a great weakness and betraying; by how much it is many times more marked, and believed, than a man's words.
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.
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Religion being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity.
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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
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There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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