Francis Bacon Quotes
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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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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.
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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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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.
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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Boldness is a child of ignorance.
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For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
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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.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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For knowledge, too, is itself power.
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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.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.