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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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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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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
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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 no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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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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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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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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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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By indignities men come to dignities.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
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