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" The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. "

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" He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. "

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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. "

" He that hath knowledge spareth his words. "

" Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. "

" Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. "

" The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. "

" I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. "

" Acorns were good until bread was found. "

" Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. "

" The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. "

" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "

" There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. "

" The place of justice is a hallowed place. "

" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "

" Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. "

" No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. "

" Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. "

" Knowledge and human power are synonymous. "

" We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. "

" God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. "

Francis Bacon

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" Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. "

" 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. "

" Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. "

" God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. "

" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "

" Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. "

" Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. "

Francis Bacon

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" Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. "

" Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. "