Francis Bacon Quotes
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils.
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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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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
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I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle, if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
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Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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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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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.