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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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Men, Garden, Perfection

Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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Family, Children, Discipline

1625 Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

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Knowledge, Men, Mind

Francis Bacon (1824). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.123

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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Communication, Doe, Painting

David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Funny Friend, World, Wilderness

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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Leaving, Looks, Slime

"The human zoo" by Gordon Burn, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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Knowledge, Perfect, Mind

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

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Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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Cutting, Old Things, Tools

Francis Bacon (1900). “Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum”

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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Men, History, Mind

Francis Bacon (1753). “The Works...”, p.42

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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Kings, Son, Too Much

Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.215, Lulu.com

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Family, Marriage, Children

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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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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Believe, Air, Water

Francis Bacon (1868). “The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works”, p.84

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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Science, Flames, Arrows

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.145

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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Powerful, Passion, Wine

"Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

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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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Science, Differences, Tree

Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.93, Jazzybee Verlag

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Francis Bacon

Men, Doubt, Wit

Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.364

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I would live to study, not study to live.

Francis Bacon

Study

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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Children, Wife, Virtue

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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Latin, Disease, Remedy

Essays "Of Seditions and Troubles" (1625)

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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Opportunity, Men

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.107

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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Believe, Chaos, I Believe

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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Lying, Taken, Men

Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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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.

Francis Bacon

Work, Want, Excitement

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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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Library, Shrines, Saint

Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.170, Oxford University Press, USA

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

Motivational, Honesty, Fear

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Born: January 22, 1561
Died: April 9, 1626
Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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