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• For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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  Body, Cleanliness, Reverence

  Francis Bacon (1857). “Works of Francis Bacon: 3”, p.377

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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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• The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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  Matter, Way

  1625 Essays, no.15,'Of Seditions and Troubles'.

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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?

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  Paint, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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  Garden, Essentials, Pleasure

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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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• I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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  Art, Believe, Magic

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• Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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  Pleasure, Danger, Peril

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.102

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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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• Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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  Way, Suits, Secrecy

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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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• The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

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  Science, Understanding, Enquiry

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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  Photography, Taken, Portraits

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• We only have our nervous system to paint.

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  Painting, Nervous, Paint

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• Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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  Friendship, Heart, Mind Your Own Business

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.49, 谷月社

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• Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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  Rebellion, Worst, Belly

  Francis Bacon (2014). “The Essays of Francis Bacon”, p.44, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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  Sticks, Calumny

  "Partitions of the Sciences". Book by Francis Bacon, 1623.

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• In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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  Children, Business, Ignorance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.

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• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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  Wisdom, Men, Evil

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