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There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.


Francis Arinze

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FRANCIS QUARLES Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
FRANCIS BACON