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• Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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  Art, Magic, Secret

  "The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z". Book by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, p. 376, 1979.

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• Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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  Science, Men, Discovery

  Novum Organum LXXIII

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• For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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  Rain, Garden, Rivers

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.107, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

  Francis Bacon

  Regret, Paint, Starting

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• A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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  War, Blow, Causes

  Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.191

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• Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

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  Children, Anger, Men

  Francis Bacon (1850). “Works”, p.306

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• Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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  Time, Ancient, Latter

  Francis Bacon (1838). “The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay”, p.269

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• the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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  Dragons, Want, Serpent

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• When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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  Country, Travel, Home

  Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.185

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• Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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  Dog, Men, Generosity

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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  Truth, Sovereign, Human Nature

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

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• Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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  Money, Advice, Proud

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.460

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• There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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  Cat, England, Deceit

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• Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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  Funny, Family, Important

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• If you can talk about it, why paint it?

  Francis Bacon

  Paint, Ifs

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• The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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  Order, Understanding, Degrees

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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  Wisdom

  "The Wisdom of the Ancients". Book by Francis Bacon, 1609.

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• Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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  Love, Friendly, Mankind

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• The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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  Men, World, Bubbles

  'The World' (1629)

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• Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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  Way, Suits, Secrecy

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• It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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  Knowledge, Finals, Four

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.114

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• Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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  Garden, Essentials, Pleasure

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• Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

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  Nice, Knowledge, Science

  Francis Bacon (1858). “The Works”, p.48

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• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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  Death, Children, Science

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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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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  Knowledge, Despair, Portraits

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