Francis Bacon Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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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.
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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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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.
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What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?
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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.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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.
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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.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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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.
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God loveth the clean.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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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.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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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.