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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
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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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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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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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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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Art is man added to Nature.
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life.
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