It is true that that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
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Quotes by Francis Bacon
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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Men in great place are thrice servants, servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Another argument of hope may be drawn from this, that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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