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Francis Bacon

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1066 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)  · 

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

[aphorist] Francis Bacon, in [category] Happiness and Misery

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (847 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

[aphorist] Francis Bacon, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (966 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is impossible to love and be wise.

[aphorist] Francis Bacon, in [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2876 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.

[aphorist] Francis Bacon, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Success and Failure

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