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Quote by Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we be

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

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In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. – Pliny The Elder

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. – Thomas Carlyle

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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. – Josh Billings

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There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. – Scotty Bowman

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