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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
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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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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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The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
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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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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
Francis Bacon
