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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
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Francis Bacon Saint Albans
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Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
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Art is man added to Nature.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
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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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God's first creature, which was light.
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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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Defer not charities till death for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
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I don't believe art is available it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
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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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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death love slights it honor aspireth to it grief flieth to it.
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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.
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