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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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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.
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it and accordingly bend their wits.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.
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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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