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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.
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For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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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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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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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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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
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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 divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
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