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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Home
Francis Bacon

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Death and Dying
Francis Bacon

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Professions and Professionals
Francis Bacon

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Courtesy
Francis Bacon

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Fear
Francis Bacon

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Politicians and Politics
Francis Bacon

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It is natural to die as to be born.
Death and Dying
Francis Bacon

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Lies and Lying
Francis Bacon

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Life and Living
Francis Bacon

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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Money
Francis Bacon

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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Ability
Francis Bacon

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.
Nature
Francis Bacon

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Justice
Francis Bacon

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Money
Francis Bacon

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Envy
Francis Bacon

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Love
Francis Bacon

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Conceit
Francis Bacon

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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Age and Aging
Francis Bacon

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Doubt
Francis Bacon

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Painters and Painting
Francis Bacon

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Riches
Francis Bacon

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Science is but an image of the truth.
Science and Scientists
Francis Bacon

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Atheism
Francis Bacon

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Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
Books - Reading
Francis Bacon

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Learning
Francis Bacon

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun