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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.
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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.
Francis Bacon
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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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper some to entertain the mind with variety and delight some for ornament and reputation some for victory and contention many for lucre and a livelihood and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Francis Bacon
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Francis Bacon
I would live to study, not study to live.
Francis Bacon
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.
Francis Bacon
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
Francis Bacon
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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