Money is a good servant but a bad master.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.Francis Bacon
Praise yourself daringly, something always sticks.
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Knowledge itself is power. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
Francis Bacon
Over a century after the publication of the Copernican system, one of England's most renowned intellectual luminaries was still unconvinced 'Nevertheless, in the system of Copernicus there are found many and great inconveniences for both the loading of the earth with a triple motion is very incommodious, and the separation of the sun from the company of the planets, with which it has so many passions in common, is likewise a difficulty, and the introduction of so much immobility in nature, by representing the sun and stars as immovable, especially being of all bodies the highest and most radiant, and making the moon revolve about the earth in an epicycle, and some other assumptions of his, are the speculations of one who cares not what fictions he introduces into nature, provided his calculations answer.'
Francis Bacon
A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will continue.
Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon
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