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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
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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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
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Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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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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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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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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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.
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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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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.
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