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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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