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Results from Cole's Quotables:

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.): Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Seditions and Troubles
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Results from Poor Man's College:

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

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