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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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Science is but an image of the truth.
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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It was a high speech of Seneca that The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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