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• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

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• Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

  Francis Bacon

  People, Revolution, Common

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• Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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  Eye, Green, Grass

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.106, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Self Love, Should

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.451

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• Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Money, Wings

  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.352

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• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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  Ornaments, Delight, Study

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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  Mind, Bending, Bows

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1834). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.213

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• Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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  Patience, Optimism, Soul

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• As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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  Change, Innovation, Growth

  "Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici".

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Beauty, Art

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

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• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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  Fear, Parenting, Grieving

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• Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

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  Photography, Jesus, Light

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• It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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  Power, 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.459

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• Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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  Peace, Father, War

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.145

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• Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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  Truth, Errors, Confusion

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• The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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  Encouragement, Wonder, Snowflake

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• In charity there is no excess.

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  Inspirational, Inspiration, Excess

  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.91

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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• He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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  Change, Time, Acceptance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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• The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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  Life, Art, Winning

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• Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

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  Beautiful, Tree, Violence

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• A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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  Talking, Justice, Judging

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• To know truly is to know by causes.

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  Causes, Knows

  Francis Bacon, Lisa Jardine, Michael Silverthorne (2000). “Francis Bacon: The New Organon”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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  Nature, Understanding, Subtlety

  1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism10.

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• Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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  Dog, Truth, Errors

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