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" Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. "
Francis Bacon
Studies
Ability
Delight
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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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" 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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" The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. "
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" People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. "
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" We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. "
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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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" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "
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Nature
Must
" It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. "
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Moral
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" Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. "
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See
" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "
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History
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" Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. "
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" Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. "
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Poor
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" For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. "
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Name
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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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Children
" There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. "
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" Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. "
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