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• Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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  Home, House, Looks

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Building'

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• Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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  Real, Conceited, Use

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• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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  Friendship, Real, Solitude

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1860). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Third edition”, p.306

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• The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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  Nature, Men, Goodness

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature'

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• It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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  Opportunity, Men, Hands

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• Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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  Dark, Arrows, Coward

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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  Thinking, Trying, Quality

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

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• The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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  Men, Religion, Vicissitudes

  Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 6”, p.514

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• Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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  Book, Science, Atheism

  'Resuscitatio' (1657) 'Proposition touching Amendment of Laws'

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• The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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  Flower, Men, Garden

  Novum Organum 'Aphorisms'

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• Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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  Men, Self, Envy

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.457

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• The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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  Support, Understanding, Opinion

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.56

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• Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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  Science, Half, Right Questions

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• In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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  Men, Use, Statistics

  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.360

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• Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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  Law, Judging, Construction

  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.377

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• An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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  Firsts, Facts, Form

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

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• Riches are for spending.

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  Funny, Money, Riches

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Expense'

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• God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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  Atheist, Miracle, Atheism

  Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.135

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• None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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  Envy, Affection, Has Beens

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• Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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  Running, Powerful, Science

  Francis Bacon (1858). “The Works”, p.79

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• It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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  Mean, Self, Fancy

  1620 Novum Organum.

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• The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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  Hope, Science, Logic

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• Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

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  Men, Mind, Body

  Francis Bacon (1859). “Essays, moral, economical and political. With a memoir of the author”, p.6

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• Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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  Marriage, Spouse, Enterprise

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• More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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  Trust, Betrayal, Adversity

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.476

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