No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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Defer not charities till death for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another mans than of his own.Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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Intermingle . . . jest with earnest.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Francis Bacon
Friends are thieves of time.
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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i.
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