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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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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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The master of superstition, is the people and in all superstition, wise men follow fools and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
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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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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
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States are great engines moving slowly.
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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life.
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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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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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
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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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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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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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