Francis Bacon Quotes
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
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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.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
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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.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
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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.
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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.
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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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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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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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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.