There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well.
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.Francis Bacon
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.
Francis Bacon
Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon
For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.
Francis Bacon
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