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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
Francis
Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
Trying
Make
Accurately
Images
Nervous
Perfection
System
Possible

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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It is natural to die as to be born.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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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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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
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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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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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