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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.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Science is but an image of the truth.
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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.
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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.
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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.
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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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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
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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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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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