Sir Francis Bacon

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"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator."	Death, Evil, Excellence
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."	Ability, History, Knowledge
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."	Humor, Imagination, Men
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."	Men, Nature
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."	Anger, Men
"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."	Men, Money
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."	Darkness, Light
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."	Change, Men, Nature
"Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."	Art, Learning, Men
"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."	Doubt, Patience
"If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties."	Doubt, Men
"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."	Forgiveness, Friends, Reading
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."	Government, Life, Men
"Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."	Law, Men
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."	Knowledge, Love, Wisdom
"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."	Books
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."	Men, Religion
"Nothing is to be feared but fear."	Fear
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."	Evil, Good, Hope
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Ability	Age	Ambition
Anger	Argument	Art
Birth	Books	Change
Choice	Conflict	Criticism
Darkness	Death	Desires
Doubt	Equality	Evil
Excellence	Fear	Forgiveness
Freedom	Friends	Good
Government	Habits	History
Honesty	Hope	Humor
Imagination	Intelligence	Intentions
Knowledge	Law	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Money	Nature
Opportunity	Patience	Poetry
Power	Reading	Religion
Sin	Time	Truth
Virtue	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Writing