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Francis Bacon quotes: An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs, An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,
Francis Bacon quotes: There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances. There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon quotes: For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs. 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 quotes: Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
Francis Bacon quotes: Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
Francis Bacon quotes: The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon quotes: Rebellions of the belly are the worst. Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon quotes: If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
Francis Bacon quotes: No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being. No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Francis Bacon quotes: Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
Francis Bacon quotes: The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon quotes: But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. 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 quotes: Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold? Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
Francis Bacon quotes: I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can. I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
Francis Bacon quotes: The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.
Francis Bacon quotes: Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon quotes: As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Francis Bacon quotes: Nothing is to be feared but fear. Nothing is to be feared but fear.
Francis Bacon quotes: He that hath knowledge spareth his words. He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon quotes: Wounds cannot be cured without searching. Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
Francis Bacon quotes: Vices of the time; vices of the man. Vices of the time; vices of the man.
Francis Bacon quotes: The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon quotes: If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world. If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon quotes: by indignities men come to dignities by indignities men come to dignities
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon quotes: Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon quotes: Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around. Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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! 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being. I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
Francis Bacon quotes: The wisdom of the ancients. The wisdom of the ancients.
Francis Bacon quotes: Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious ... Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious ...
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon quotes: Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Art is man added to Nature. Art is man added to Nature.
Francis Bacon quotes: The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
Francis Bacon quotes: Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon quotes: Money is like muck, not good unless spread. Money is like muck, not good unless spread.
Francis Bacon quotes: It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
Francis Bacon quotes: I would live to study, not study to live. I would live to study, not study to live.
Francis Bacon quotes: It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Great riches have sold more men than they have bought. Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Francis Bacon quotes: Great Hypocrites are the real atheists. Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon quotes: They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed. Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
Francis Bacon quotes: Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon quotes: Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises. Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
Francis Bacon quotes: The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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 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 quotes: Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
Francis Bacon quotes: Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon quotes: A man dies as often as he loses his friends. A man dies as often as he loses his friends.
Francis Bacon quotes: A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Francis Bacon quotes: Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Francis Bacon quotes: Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
Francis Bacon quotes: What then remains, but that we still should cryNot to be born, or being born, to die? What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born, to die?
Francis Bacon quotes: In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon quotes: People prefer to believe what they want to be true. People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
Francis Bacon quotes: There is no such flatterer as is a man's self. There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Revenge is a king of wild justice. Revenge is a king of wild justice.
Francis Bacon quotes: Acorns were good until bread was found. Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon quotes: For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Francis Bacon quotes: Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon quotes: A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Francis Bacon quotes: Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon quotes: I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
Francis Bacon quotes: It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do. It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.
Francis Bacon quotes: Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain. 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 quotes: He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon quotes: Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
Francis Bacon quotes: Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
Francis Bacon quotes: When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon quotes: Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon quotes: Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Francis Bacon quotes: Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon quotes: Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Francis Bacon quotes: If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Francis Bacon quotes: The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction. The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
Francis Bacon quotes: In all superstition wise men follow fools. In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Francis Bacon quotes: Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon quotes: It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives. It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.
Francis Bacon quotes: The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
Francis Bacon quotes: Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Francis Bacon quotes: 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. 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.

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