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Quotes by Sir Francis Bacon

"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."

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"Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that."

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"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."

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"Knowledge itself is power."

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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."

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"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."

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

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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

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"Nothing is to be feared but fear."

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"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."

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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."

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