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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
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Philosopher
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Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
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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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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first because one cannot hold out that proportion.
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.
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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.
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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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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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