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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
  -- Francis Baco...
• The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626...
• 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 no
  but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men....
• When is the best time for a man to marry?) A young man not yet, an older man not at all.
  Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. -- Francis Baco
• Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doub
  when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...