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• There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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  Love, Men, Secret

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.33

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• The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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  Color, Sea, White

  Francis Bacon (2014). “Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.124, The Floating Press

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• Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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  Business, Home, Men

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.17

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• Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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  Mean, Men, Endeavor

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.91, Jazzybee Verlag

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• ...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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  Science, Discovery, Levels

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.146, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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  Art, Painting

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• There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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  Speed, Secrecy

  Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 6”, p.428

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• The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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  Learning, Men, Genius

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.26, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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  Believe, Men, Envy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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  Lying, Men, Faces

  Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.6

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• Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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  Life, Philosophy, Science

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• All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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  Art, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.334

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• I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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  Real, Mean, Eye

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• All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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  Philosophy, Science, Religion

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• Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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  Men, Charity, Another Man

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Riches'

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• For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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  Religion, Foundation, Doe

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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  Science, Men, Long

  Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw (1733). “The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and Made English from the Originals, with Occasional Notes, To Explain what is Obscure; and Show how Far the Several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of All the Parts of Knowledge, Have Been Executed to the Present Time”, p.316

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• The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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  Doctrine, Cleanliness, Carefulness

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• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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  Cat, Men, Cunning Man

  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.334

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• Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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  Illustration, Perfect, Balance

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• The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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  Men, Mind, Foundation

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.21

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• There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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  Wise, Heart, Men

  Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.49

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• For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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  Memories, Men, Names

  1626 From his will.

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• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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  Memories, Shapes, Please

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• For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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  Mean, Sanity, Splendid

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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