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Riches are for spending.

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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
Francis
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
Funny
Money
Riches
Spending

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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it and accordingly bend their wits.
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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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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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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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All bravery stands upon comparisons.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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