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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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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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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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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
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In charity there is no excess.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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I don't believe art is available it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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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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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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