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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
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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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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
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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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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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