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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth of philosophy bringeth a man's mind about to religion.
Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon

Athiesm is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon

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