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• Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Anger makes dull men witty--but it keeps them poor. -- Sir Francis Baco
• We cannot command nature except by obeying her. -- Sir Francis Baco
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Of Beauty...
• Silence is the virtue of fools. -- Francis Baco
• Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Beauty
• The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense, the last was the light of the reaso
  and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of the spirit....
• Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....