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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.
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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
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We only have our nervous system to paint.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
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Innovations, which are the births of time.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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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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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
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