Francis Bacon
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.