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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
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Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.
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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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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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Man was formed for society.
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
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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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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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Journeys at youth are part of the education but at maturity, are part of the experience.
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All will come out in the washing.
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I don't think people are born artists I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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A good name is like precious ointment it filleth all round about, and will not easily away for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first because one cannot hold out that proportion.
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