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• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

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• The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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  Inspirational, Greatness, Thinking

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• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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  Science, Math, Men

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

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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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  Change, Matter, Certain

  'Cogitationes de Natura Rerum' Cogitatio 5 in J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 3 (1857) p. 22 (Latin) and vol. 5 (1858) p. 426 (English translation)

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• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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  Beauty, Infinite, Sensible

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• If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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  Science, Son, Winning

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• Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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  Absurdity, Boldness

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.362, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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  Apes, Habit, Ifs

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• Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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  Fool, Fortune, Darling

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1857). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.128

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• People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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  Funny, People, Devil

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• The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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  Science, Power, Wit

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1841). “The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England”, p.534

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• A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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  Revenge, Men, Green

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• Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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  Writing, Dust, Water

  'The World' (1629)

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• The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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  Memories, Men, Roots

  Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.70

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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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  Art, Attitude, People

  Hugh Marlais Davies, Francis Bacon (2001). “Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953”, Museum of Contemporary Art San

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• The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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  Friendship, Men, Giving

  Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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  Flower, Names, Odor

  Francis Bacon, Alexander Spiers, Basil Montagu (1858). “The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: and The Wisdom of the Ancients”, p.233

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• The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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  Knowledge, Knowing, Essentials

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.287

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• All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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  Artist, Long, Want

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• One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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  Death, Father, Men

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.289

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• A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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  Real, Passion, Heart

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

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• Innovations, which are the births of time.

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  Technology, Innovation, Birth

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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• Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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  Lying, Deceit, Substance

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.538

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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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  Science, Men, Medicine

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.371

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• Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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  Knowledge, Science, Order

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.392

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