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.


Francis Bacon

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl...
FRANCIS BACON
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug...
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
FRANCIS BACON
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images...
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
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He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with b...
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,...
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
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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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Boldness is a child of ignorance.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
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The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the w...
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Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increas...
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