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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
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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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
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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.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
Francis Bacon
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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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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.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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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.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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Knowledge is power.
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.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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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