Francis Bacon Quotes
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
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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.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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Whatever you can, count.
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It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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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.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
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You shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects. And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did truly think, that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves?
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
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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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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.