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Silence is the virtue of fools. - Francis Bacon

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

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. - Francis Bacon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon

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

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Francis Bacon

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

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. - Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. - Francis Bacon

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

Science is but an image of the truth. - Francis Bacon

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. - Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. - Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - Francis Bacon

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. - Francis Bacon

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. - Francis Bacon

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. - Francis Bacon

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. - Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. - Francis Bacon

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