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Francis Bacon Quotes

«Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.»
«In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.»
«People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.»
«The world's a bubble; and the life of man,/ Less than a span.»
«What then remains, but that we still should cry,/ Not to be born, or being born, to die?»
«There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well.»
«Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust.»
«Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.»
«It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.»
«God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.»

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