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• Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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  Two, People, Interesting

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• He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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  Crazy, Animal, Mad

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• Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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  Fear, War

  Francis Bacon (1870). “A Conference of Pleasure”, p.34

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• I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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  Self, Portraits, Portraiture

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• But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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  Science, Demonstration, Experiments

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.110, Hackett Publishing

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• Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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  Real, Confusion, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

  Francis Bacon

  Adversity, Speech, Prosperity

  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.306

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• Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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  Pleasure, Danger, Peril

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.102

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• I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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  I Like You, Sunset, Glitter

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

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• It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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  Mean, Science, Madness

  Francis Bacon (1813). “The Novum Organum Scientiarum: In Two Parts”, p.2

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• There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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  Wise, Nature, Fool

  1625 Essays, no.12,'Of Boldness'.

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• A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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  Struggle, Illustration, Events

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• Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Memories, Men

  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.258

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• He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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• Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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  Nature, Science, Overcoming

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Nature in Men'

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• In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

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  Philosophy, Knowledge, Character

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.207

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• Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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  Science, Men, Drug

  De Erroribus Medicorum

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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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  Believe, Mind, Atheism

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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  Witty, Integrity, Judging

  "Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral".

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• That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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  Nature, Smell, Yield

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.509

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• And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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  Failure, Math, May

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.125

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• There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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  Christian, Religious, Law

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.526

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• Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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  Science, Men, Order

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• States, as great engines, move slowly.

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  Moving, Government, States

  Francis Bacon (1857). “Works of Francis Bacon: 3”, p.445

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