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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Francis Bacon
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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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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
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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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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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