Sir Francis Bacon

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"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."	Forgiveness, Friends, Reading
"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."	Friends, Men
"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."	Books
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."	Change, Men, Nature
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."	Friends, Sin
"Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything."	Intelligence, Knowledge, Men
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."	Men, Religion
"Knowledge itself is power."	Knowledge, Power, Wisdom
"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
"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."	Intentions, Nature
"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."	Ability, Age, Ambition
"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
"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
"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
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."	Darkness, Light
"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
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."	Knowledge, Love, Wisdom
"Nothing is to be feared but fear."	Fear
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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