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Francis Bacon Inspirational Quotes (392)

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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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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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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth to use them too much for ornament is affection to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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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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I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
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You can't be more horrific than life itself.
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