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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
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
Riches
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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