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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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A little science estranges a man from God a lot of science brings him back.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.
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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
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