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• The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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  Science, Imagination, Understanding

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

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• But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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  Science, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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  Evil, Body, Causes

  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.329

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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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• I would live to study, not study to live.

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  Study

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• Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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  Reading, Writing, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Action

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• The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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  Love, Men, Tragedy

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 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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• There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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  Taken, Science, Apples

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• Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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  Hands, Mistress, Riches

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• Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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  Horse, Mean, Men

  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.361

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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  Children, Wife, Virtue

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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  Lying, Taken, Men

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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• When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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  Men, Doubt, Wit

  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.364

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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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• What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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  Death, Cry, Born

  "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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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 knowledge, too, is itself power.

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  Knowledge

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• I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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  Art, Painting, Painter

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• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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  Fall, Knowledge, Angel

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