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• It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

  Francis Bacon

  Politics, Moral, Fierce

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.111

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• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

  Francis Bacon

  Country, School, Language

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

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• In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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  Nature, Moving, Science

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.525

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• Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

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• Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

  Francis Bacon

  Luck, Intuition, Stuff

  Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon, Marente Bloemheuvel, Jan Mot (1995). “Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon: det unika med att vara en människa”

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• It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

  Francis Bacon

  Paint, Mediums, Extraordinary

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

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• Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Unity, Church

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.513

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• I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

  Francis Bacon

  Sweaters, Peculiar, Tools

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• They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

  Francis Bacon

  Education, Art, Science

  The Advancement of Learning Bk IV, Ch. II

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• There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Wonderful, Arise

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.12, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Names, Stories

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.107

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• The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

  Francis Bacon

  Judging, Honor, Succeed

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• If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

  Francis Bacon

  Fire, Fuel, Sparks

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.465

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• There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

  Francis Bacon

  Superstitions, Avoiding

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Superstition'

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• For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Hatred, Secret

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.189

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• Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Museums, Years

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• Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Riches, Kindred

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• Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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  Men, Use, Grows

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• As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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  Running, Weed, Nature

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• I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Freedom, Doe

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

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• There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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  Atheist, Nature, Light

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.54

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• I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

  Francis Bacon

  Evil

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

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• A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

  Francis Bacon

  Communication, Men, Suffering

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.286

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• Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Simple, Men

  Francis Bacon (1949). “The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon”

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• I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Want, Chance, Accidents

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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