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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
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Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
Francis Bacon
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Francis Bacon
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
Francis Bacon
What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon
Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
Francis Bacon
I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
Francis Bacon
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
Francis Bacon
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Francis Bacon
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.
Francis Bacon
An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
Francis Bacon
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
Francis Bacon
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Francis Bacon
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
Francis Bacon
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
Francis Bacon