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• Acorns were good until bread was found.

  Francis Bacon

  Food, Progress, Bread

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• Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Facts, Sides

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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  Wise, Spaniards, Seems

  Essays "Of SeemingWise" (1625)

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• There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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  Friendship, Littles, World

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Followers and Friends'

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• Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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  Usa, Liberty, Modern Life

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• You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

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  Art, Men, Games

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• Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

  Francis Bacon

  Discovery, Judgment

  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.219

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• There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Doubt, Littles

  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.348

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• I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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  Artist, Thinking, People

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• By indignities men come to dignities.

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  Men, Dignity, Indignity

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Great Place'

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• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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  Men, Disease, Behavior

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• Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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  Dream, Winter, Astrology

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• The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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  Wise, Men, Order

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.416

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• Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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  Men, Liberty, Speech

  Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”

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• Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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  Justice, Care, Next

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.569

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• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

  Francis Bacon

  Math, Men, Littles

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

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• Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

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  Strong, Science, Doctors

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• It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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  Science, Discovery, New Work

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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  Mind, Firsts, Clarity

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.211, Lulu.com

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• Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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  Prayer, Believe, Law

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

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• There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

  Francis Bacon

  Mother, Father, Knowledge

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1850). “The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.113

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• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

  Francis Bacon

  Power, Too Much, Authority

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• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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  Skills, Creative, Making Love

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• If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

  Francis Bacon

  Looks, Return, Painting

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