Sir Francis Bacon

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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."	Men, Religion
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."	Knowledge, Men, Opportunity
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."	Anger, Men
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."	Argument, Conflict, Government
"Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them."	Lies
"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."	Books
"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."	Ability, Choice, Habits
"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."	Birth, Death, Military
"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
"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
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."	Evil, Good, Hope
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."	Government, Life, Men
"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
"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
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."	Change, Men, Nature
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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