Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science) for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.Francis Bacon
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis Bacon
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
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