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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends -- Francis Bacon
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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further. -- Francis Bacon
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The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. -- Francis Bacon
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Dreams, and predictions of astrology ... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. -- Francis Bacon
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Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other -- Francis Bacon
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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.' -- Francis Bacon
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The punishing of wits enhances their authority. -- Francis Bacon
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea. -- Francis Bacon
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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind. -- Francis Bacon
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. -- Francis Bacon
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. -- Francis Bacon
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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center. -- Francis Bacon
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. -- Francis Bacon
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Worthy books are not companions - they are solitudes: we lose ourselves in them and all our cares -- Francis Bacon
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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the image of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that they have no posterity. -- Francis Bacon
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. -- Francis Bacon
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Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment. -- Francis Bacon
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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god. -- Francis Bacon
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Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it ... There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's observation, what he finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. -- Francis Bacon
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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. -- Francis Bacon
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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent. -- Francis Bacon
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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason -- Francis Bacon
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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God. -- Francis Bacon
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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. -- Francis Bacon
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The remedy is worse than the disease. -- Francis Bacon
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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. -- Francis Bacon
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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists. -- Francis Bacon
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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. -- Francis Bacon
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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. -- Francis Bacon
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Knowledge itself is power -- Francis Bacon
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God loveth the clean. -- Francis Bacon
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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. -- Francis Bacon
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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe ... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence. -- Francis Bacon
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. -- Francis Bacon
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. -- Francis Bacon
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REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. -- Francis Bacon
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There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise. -- Francis Bacon
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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it. -- Francis Bacon
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I think of myself as a kind of pulverizing machine into which everything I look at and feel is fed. I believe that I am different from the mixed-media jackdaws who use photographs etc. more or less literally. -- Francis Bacon
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. -- Francis Bacon
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. -- Francis Bacon
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. -- Francis Bacon
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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint. -- Francis Bacon
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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind. -- Francis Bacon
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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. -- Francis Bacon
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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come. -- Francis Bacon
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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do. -- Francis Bacon
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. -- Francis Bacon
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To invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know -- 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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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do. -- Francis Bacon
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs. -- Francis Bacon
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For friends ... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. -- Francis Bacon
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. -- Francis Bacon
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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices. -- Francis Bacon
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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,
as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man. -- Francis Bacon
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. -- Francis Bacon
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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. -- Francis Bacon
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. -- Francis Bacon
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good. -- Francis Bacon
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We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep". -- Francis Bacon
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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner." -- Francis Bacon
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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages -- Francis Bacon
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made. -- Francis Bacon
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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons. -- Francis Bacon
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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed. -- Francis Bacon
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. -- Francis Bacon
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. -- Francis Bacon
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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. -- Francis Bacon
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. -- Francis Bacon
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance. -- Francis Bacon
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life. -- Francis Bacon
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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way. -- Francis Bacon
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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances. -- Francis Bacon
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. -- Francis Bacon
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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently. -- Francis Bacon
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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike. -- Francis Bacon
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Books speak plain when counselors blanch. -- Francis Bacon
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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides. -- Francis Bacon
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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. -- Francis Bacon
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. -- Francis Bacon
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. -- Francis Bacon
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Lie faces God and shrikns from men -- Francis Bacon
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To spend too much time in them [studying] is sloth, to use them too much for ornament is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor* of a scholar ... . -- Francis Bacon
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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression. -- Francis Bacon
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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings. -- Francis Bacon
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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? -- Francis Bacon
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Silence is the virtue of fools. -- Francis Bacon
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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. -- Francis Bacon
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States, as great engines, move slowly. -- Francis Bacon
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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration. -- Francis Bacon
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried. -- Francis Bacon
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. -- Francis Bacon
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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. -- Francis Bacon
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One of the fathers saith ... that old men go to death, and death comes to young men. -- Francis Bacon
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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion. -- Francis Bacon
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. -- Francis Bacon
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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk. -- Francis Bacon
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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. -- Francis Bacon
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. -- Francis Bacon
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration ... tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils -- Francis Bacon
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. -- Francis Bacon
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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. -- Francis Bacon
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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. -- Francis Bacon
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For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. -- Francis Bacon
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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator. -- Francis Bacon
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. -- Francis Bacon
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. -- Francis Bacon
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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. -- Francis Bacon
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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success. -- Francis Bacon
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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. -- Francis Bacon
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. -- Francis Bacon
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. -- Francis Bacon
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. -- Francis Bacon
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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life ... -- Francis Bacon
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A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy -- Francis Bacon
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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials ... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself. -- Francis Bacon
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. -- Francis Bacon
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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. -- Francis Bacon
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. -- Francis Bacon
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ... Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it. -- Francis Bacon
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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold? -- Francis Bacon
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Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women. -- Francis Bacon
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It is impossible to love and be wise. -- Francis Bacon
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But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. -- Francis Bacon
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? -- Francis Bacon
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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury. -- Francis Bacon
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Nupital love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it. -- Francis Bacon
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. -- Francis Bacon
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. -- Francis Bacon
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It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt. -- Francis Bacon
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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded. -- Francis Bacon
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works. -- Francis Bacon
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Opportunity makes a thief. -- Francis Bacon
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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -- Francis Bacon
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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs. -- Francis Bacon
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. -- Francis Bacon
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God Almighty first planted a garden: and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. -- Francis Bacon
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For knowledge, too, is itself power. -- Francis Bacon
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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image. -- Francis Bacon
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him. -- Francis Bacon
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It's all so meaningless, we may as well be extraordinary. -- Francis Bacon
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God has two textbooks - Scripture and Creation - we would do well to listen to both. -- Francis Bacon
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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. -- Francis Bacon
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The folly of one man is the fortune of another. -- Francis Bacon
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. -- Francis Bacon
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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him. -- Francis Bacon
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. -- Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- Francis Bacon
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst. -- Francis Bacon
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To know truly is to know by causes. -- Francis Bacon
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master. -- Francis Bacon
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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less. -- Francis Bacon
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All will come out in the washing. -- Francis Bacon
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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art. -- Francis Bacon
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought. -- Francis Bacon
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment -- Francis Bacon
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Wounds cannot be cured without searching. -- Francis Bacon
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The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying. -- Francis Bacon
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. -- Francis Bacon
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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. -- Francis Bacon
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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow. -- Francis Bacon
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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was." -- Francis Bacon
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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction. -- Francis Bacon
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. -- Francis Bacon
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one. -- Francis Bacon
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. -- Francis Bacon
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If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. -- Francis Bacon
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He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though often by prevailings. -- Francis Bacon
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. -- Francis Bacon
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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck. -- Francis Bacon
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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light. -- Francis Bacon
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Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid. -- Francis Bacon
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. -- Francis Bacon
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing is to be feared but fear. -- Francis Bacon
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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse. -- Francis Bacon
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by indignities men come to dignities -- Francis Bacon
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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry. -- Francis Bacon
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Francis Bacon
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The first remedy or prevention is to remove, by all means possible, that material cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, want and poverty in the estate. -- Francis Bacon
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands -- Francis Bacon
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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off. -- Francis Bacon
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For the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem. -- Francis Bacon
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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. -- Francis Bacon
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. -- Francis Bacon
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony. -- Francis Bacon
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In charity there is no excess. -- Francis Bacon
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon
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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. -- Francis Bacon
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find. -- Francis Bacon
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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had -- Francis Bacon
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For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. -- Francis Bacon
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. -- Francis Bacon
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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. -- Francis Bacon
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being. -- Francis Bacon
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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God -- Francis Bacon
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Money is a great servant but a bad master. -- Francis Bacon
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. -- Francis Bacon
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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. -- Francis Bacon
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. -- Francis Bacon
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon
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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less. -- Francis Bacon
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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness. -- Francis Bacon
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It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe. -- Francis Bacon
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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps. -- Francis Bacon
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
[Proposition touching Amendment of Laws] -- Francis Bacon
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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts. -- Francis Bacon
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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come. -- Francis Bacon
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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people. -- Francis Bacon
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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ... and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. -- Francis Bacon
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words. -- Francis Bacon
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances. -- Francis Bacon
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Let the mind be enlarged ... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. -- Francis Bacon
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. -- Francis Bacon
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. -- Francis Bacon
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Revenge is a king of wild justice. -- Francis Bacon
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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. -- Francis Bacon
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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models ... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know ... -- Francis Bacon
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. -- Francis Bacon
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. -- Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. -- Francis Bacon
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Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint. -- Francis Bacon
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. -- Francis Bacon
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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free. -- Francis Bacon
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. -- Francis Bacon
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. -- Francis Bacon
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. -- Francis Bacon
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays -- Francis Bacon
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. -- Francis Bacon
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. -- Francis Bacon
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Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works. -- Francis Bacon
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around. -- Francis Bacon
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. -- Francis Bacon
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. -- Francis Bacon
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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. -- Francis Bacon
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. -- Francis Bacon
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. -- Francis Bacon
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. -- Francis Bacon
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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics. -- Francis Bacon
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Time is the greatest innovator. -- Francis Bacon
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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights ... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure -- Francis Bacon
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. -- Francis Bacon
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. -- Francis Bacon
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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness. -- Francis Bacon
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. -- Francis Bacon
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress. -- Francis Bacon
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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. -- Francis Bacon
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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast. -- Francis Bacon
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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person. -- Francis Bacon
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More dangers have deceived men than forced them. -- Francis Bacon
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. -- Francis Bacon
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man. -- Francis Bacon
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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. -- Francis Bacon
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Come home to men's business and bosoms. -- Francis Bacon
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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar ... you never know. -- Francis Bacon
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The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and Passion. Man always believes what he determines to believe. -- Francis Bacon
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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. -- Francis Bacon
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes ... and whatever lies upon the heart ... -- Francis Bacon
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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common. -- Francis Bacon
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. -- Francis Bacon
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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. -- Francis Bacon
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. -- Francis Bacon
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Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush. -- Francis Bacon
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All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. -- Francis Bacon
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. -- 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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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. -- Francis Bacon
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. -- Francis Bacon
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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs. -- Francis Bacon
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks. -- Francis Bacon
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Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. -- Francis Bacon
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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal. -- Francis Bacon
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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. -- Francis Bacon
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes. -- Francis Bacon
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Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both. -- Francis Bacon
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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs, -- Francis Bacon
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A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules. -- Francis Bacon
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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. -- Francis Bacon
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! -- Francis Bacon
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This communicating of a Man's Selfe to his Frend works two contrarie effects; for it re-doubleth Joys, and cutteth Griefs in halves. -- Francis Bacon
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. -- Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. -- Francis Bacon
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Photographs are not only points of reference ... they're often triggers of ideas. -- Francis Bacon
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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience. -- Francis Bacon
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. -- Francis Bacon
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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises. -- Francis Bacon
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. -- Francis Bacon
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. -- Francis Bacon
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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object. -- Francis Bacon
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. -- Francis Bacon
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The productions of the mind and hand seem very numerous in books and manufactures. But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already known, not in the number of axioms. VIII -- Francis Bacon
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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things -- Francis Bacon
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. -- Francis Bacon
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out. -- Francis Bacon
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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. -- Francis Bacon
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Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion. -- Francis Bacon
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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. -- Francis Bacon
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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma. -- Francis Bacon
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt. -- Francis Bacon
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. -- Francis Bacon
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. -- Francis Bacon
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I believe in deeply ordered chaos -- Francis Bacon
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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset. -- Francis Bacon
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. -- Francis Bacon
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. -- Francis Bacon
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Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. -- Francis Bacon
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. -- Francis Bacon
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You can't be more horrific than life itself, -- Francis Bacon
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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. -- Francis Bacon
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. -- Francis Bacon
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. -- Francis Bacon
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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. -- Francis Bacon
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Cure the disease and kill the patient. -- Francis Bacon
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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned ... either upon an art, or upon a man. -- Francis Bacon
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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives. -- Francis Bacon
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. -- Francis Bacon
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly -- Francis Bacon
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I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery? -- Francis Bacon
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. -- Francis Bacon
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Great changes are easier than small ones. -- Francis Bacon
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. -- Francis Bacon
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Praise is the reflection of virtue. -- Francis Bacon
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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. -- Francis Bacon
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand
and melting like a snowflake ... -- Francis Bacon
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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. -- Francis Bacon
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. -- Francis Bacon
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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. -- Francis Bacon
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man. -- Francis Bacon
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed. -- Francis Bacon
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All colours will agree in the dark. -- Francis Bacon
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. -- Francis Bacon
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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve. -- Francis Bacon
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What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born, to die? -- Francis Bacon
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Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. -- Francis Bacon
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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs. -- Francis Bacon
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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none. -- Francis Bacon
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The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room. -- Francis Bacon
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age. -- Francis Bacon
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Boldness is a child of ignorance -- Francis Bacon
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. -- Francis Bacon
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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him. -- Francis Bacon
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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not. -- Francis Bacon
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. -- Francis Bacon
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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. -- Francis Bacon
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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. -- Francis Bacon
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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread. -- Francis Bacon
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. -- Francis Bacon
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. -- Francis Bacon
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. -- Francis Bacon
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. -- Francis Bacon
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Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it -- Francis Bacon
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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. -- Francis Bacon
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. -- Francis Bacon
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. -- Francis Bacon
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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather. -- Francis Bacon
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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly. -- Francis Bacon
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Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. -- Francis Bacon
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Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel. -- Francis Bacon
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The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. -- Francis Bacon
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. -- Francis Bacon
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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own. -- Francis Bacon
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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. -- Francis Bacon
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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact. -- Francis Bacon
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. -- Francis Bacon
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.' -- Francis Bacon
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener. -- Francis Bacon
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If you can talk about it, why paint it? -- Francis Bacon
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. -- Francis Bacon
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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. -- Francis Bacon
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. -- Francis Bacon
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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings. -- Francis Bacon
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. -- Francis Bacon
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It might be a long trip, so be careful not to wear your shoes out: you might need them in the afterlife. -- Francis Bacon
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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt. -- Francis Bacon
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. -- Francis Bacon
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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. -- Francis Bacon
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude. -- Francis Bacon
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Art is man added to Nature. -- Francis Bacon
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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. -- Francis Bacon
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon
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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely. -- Francis Bacon
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. -- Francis Bacon
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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion. -- Francis Bacon
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment. -- Francis Bacon
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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all. -- Francis Bacon
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Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. -- Francis Bacon
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. -- Francis Bacon
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed ... -- Francis Bacon
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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered. -- Francis Bacon
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There are Idols which we call Idols of the Market. For Men associate by Discourse, and a false and improper Imposition of Words strangely possesses the Understanding, for Words absolutely force the Understanding, and put all Things into Confusion. -- Francis Bacon
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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding. -- Francis Bacon
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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks. -- Francis Bacon
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. -- Francis Bacon
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. -- Francis Bacon
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied. -- Francis Bacon
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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own. -- Francis Bacon
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed. -- Francis Bacon
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. -- Francis Bacon
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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from. -- Francis Bacon
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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. -- Francis Bacon
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer. -- Francis Bacon
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. -- Francis Bacon
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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another. -- Francis Bacon
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Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage. -- Francis Bacon
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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. -- Francis Bacon
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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span. -- Francis Bacon
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. -- Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. -- Francis Bacon
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I regret not starting to paint earlier ... It is one of the few things I do regret. -- Francis Bacon
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. -- Francis Bacon
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. -- Francis Bacon
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We only have our nervous system to paint. -- Francis Bacon
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. -- Francis Bacon
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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order. -- Francis Bacon
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. -- Francis Bacon
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The place of justice is a hallowed place. -- Francis Bacon
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. -- Francis Bacon
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If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world. -- Francis Bacon
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. -- Francis Bacon
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. -- Francis Bacon
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth. -- Francis Bacon
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance. -- Francis Bacon
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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell. -- Francis Bacon
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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it. -- Francis Bacon
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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. -- Francis Bacon
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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes. -- Francis Bacon
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It Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour -- Francis Bacon
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits. -- Francis Bacon
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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction. -- Francis Bacon
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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. -- Francis Bacon
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. -- Francis Bacon
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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power. -- Francis Bacon
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Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious ... -- Francis Bacon
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. -- Francis Bacon
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For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit. -- Francis Bacon
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. -- Francis Bacon
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone." -- Francis Bacon
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. -- Francis Bacon
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Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and execution of business. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. -- Francis Bacon
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The essential form of knowledge ... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself. -- Francis Bacon
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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go. -- Francis Bacon
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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner. -- Francis Bacon
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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings. -- Francis Bacon
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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory. -- Francis Bacon
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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth. -- Francis Bacon
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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others. -- Francis Bacon
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. -- Francis Bacon
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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore. -- Francis Bacon
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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. -- Francis Bacon
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. -- Francis Bacon
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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many. -- Francis Bacon
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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence ... as a snail leaves its slime. -- Francis Bacon
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. -- Francis Bacon
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Money is like muck, not good unless spread. -- Francis Bacon
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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets. -- Francis Bacon
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Man was formed for society. -- Francis Bacon
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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. -- Francis Bacon
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -- Francis Bacon
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Truth is a naked and open daylight -- Francis Bacon
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. -- Francis Bacon
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Always let losers have their words. -- Francis Bacon
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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. -- Francis Bacon
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Neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science. -- Francis Bacon
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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion. -- Francis Bacon
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. -- Francis Bacon
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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. -- Francis Bacon
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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. -- Francis Bacon
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The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together. -- Francis Bacon
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. -- Francis Bacon
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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can. -- Francis Bacon
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions. -- Francis Bacon
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. -- Francis Bacon
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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. -- Francis Bacon
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. -- Francis Bacon
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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's. -- Francis Bacon
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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. -- Francis Bacon
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The worst men often give the best advice. -- Francis Bacon
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. -- Francis Bacon
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. -- Francis Bacon
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Science is but an image of the truth. -- Francis Bacon
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Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. -- Francis Bacon
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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. -- Francis Bacon
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. -- Francis Bacon
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it. -- Francis Bacon
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays. -- Francis Bacon
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. -- Francis Bacon
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet. -- Francis Bacon
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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated. -- Francis Bacon
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind. -- Francis Bacon
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God's first creature, which was light. -- Francis Bacon
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Let every student of nature take this as a rule,
that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion. -- Francis Bacon
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He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. -- Francis Bacon
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom. -- Francis Bacon
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. -- Francis Bacon
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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success. -- Francis Bacon
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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it. -- Francis Bacon
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It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt. -- Francis Bacon
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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible. -- Francis Bacon
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. -- Francis Bacon
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self. -- Francis Bacon
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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new. -- Francis Bacon
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. -- Francis Bacon
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented. -- Francis Bacon
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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working. -- Francis Bacon
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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists. -- Francis Bacon
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Acorns were good until bread was found. -- Francis Bacon
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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously. -- Francis Bacon
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error. -- Francis Bacon
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. -- Francis Bacon
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge -- Francis Bacon
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice. -- Francis Bacon
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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. -- Francis Bacon
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. -- Francis Bacon
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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction. -- Francis Bacon
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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. -- Francis Bacon
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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation ... this is the work and aim of human knowledge. -- Francis Bacon
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By far the best proof is experience. -- Francis Bacon
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. -- Francis Bacon
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I would live to study, not study to live. -- Francis Bacon
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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity. -- Francis Bacon
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. -- Francis Bacon
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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. -- Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. -- Francis Bacon
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It is natural to die as to be born. -- Francis Bacon
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People prefer to believe what they want to be true. -- Francis Bacon
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. -- Francis Bacon
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It! -- Francis Bacon
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There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. -- Francis Bacon
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain. -- Francis Bacon
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. -- Francis Bacon
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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself. -- Francis Bacon
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Consistency is the foundation of virtue. -- Francis Bacon
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Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure. -- Francis Bacon
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. -- Francis Bacon
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. -- Francis Bacon
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand. -- Francis Bacon
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. -- Francis Bacon
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. -- Francis Bacon
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted -- Francis Bacon
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. -- Francis Bacon
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. -- Francis Bacon
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. -- Francis Bacon
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being. -- Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. -- Francis Bacon
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. -- Francis Bacon
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The true atheist is he whose hands are cauterized by holy things. -- Francis Bacon
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In all superstition wise men follow fools. -- Francis Bacon
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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. -- Francis Bacon
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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. -- Francis Bacon
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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. -- Francis Bacon
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. -- Francis Bacon
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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. -- Francis Bacon
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T often falls out that somewhat is produced of nothing; for lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. -- Francis Bacon
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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not. -- Francis Bacon
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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. -- Francis Bacon
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Vices of the time; vices of the man. -- Francis Bacon
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The surest way to prevent seditions ... is to take away the matter of them. -- Francis Bacon
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A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it -- Francis Bacon
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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. -- Francis Bacon
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. -- Francis Bacon
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. -- Francis Bacon
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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. -- Francis Bacon
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. -- Francis Bacon
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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands. -- Francis Bacon
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -- Francis Bacon
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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature. -- Francis Bacon
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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out. -- Francis Bacon
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity. -- Francis Bacon
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The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself. -- Francis Bacon
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A little science estranges a man from God;
a lot of science brings him back. -- Francis Bacon
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. -- Francis Bacon
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. -- Francis Bacon
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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others. -- Francis Bacon
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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back. -- Francis Bacon
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. -- Francis Bacon
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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is. -- Francis Bacon
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Francis Bacon
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. -- Francis Bacon
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. -- Francis Bacon
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States are great engines moving slowly. -- Francis Bacon
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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees ... -- Francis Bacon
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A man dies as often as he loses his friends. -- Francis Bacon
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition. -- Francis Bacon
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Riches are for spending. -- Francis Bacon
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Time is the author of authors. -- Francis Bacon
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. -- Francis Bacon
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous. -- Francis Bacon
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Mysteries are due to secrecy. -- Francis Bacon
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The wisdom of the ancients. -- Francis Bacon
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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. -- Francis Bacon
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon
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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance. -- Francis Bacon