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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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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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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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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 my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
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