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• Great changes are easier than small ones.

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  Change, Easier, Great Change

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• I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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  Men, Society, Debtors

  'The Elements of the Common Law' (1596) preface

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• A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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  Men, Experience, Unexpected

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.542

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• If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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  Slides, Daydreaming, Succession

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• The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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  Men, Stupidity, Fortune

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.472

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• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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  Philosophy, Men, Order

  "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

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• Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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  Patterns, Painting, Canvas

  Sir John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (1967). “Bacon”

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• The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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  War, Adversity, Conflict

  1625 Essays, no.5,'Of Adversity'.

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• By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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  Divorce, Knowledge, Mean

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• A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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  Marriage, Men, Years

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• Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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  Injury, Wounds

  Francis Bacon, Edward Arber (1871). “A Harmony of the Essays: Etc”, p.53

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• What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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  Truth, Honesty, Answers

  Essays "Of Truth" (1625). The Biblical reference is to John 18:38.

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• An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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  Passion, Artist, Despair

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• It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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  Life, Way

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 23, sect. 45

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• The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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  Motivational, Hands, Mold

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• Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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  Wise, Witty, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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  Horrific

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• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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  Adversity, Blessing, Christian Inspirational

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

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• He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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  Evil, Ends, Remedy

  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.335

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• A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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  Friendship, Husband, Father

  Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.62

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• If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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  Men, Vices, Would Be

  Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.191

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• O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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  Life, Birthday, Age

  "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh".

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• Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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  Men, Doubt, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.492

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• The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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  Weakness, Lasts, Cords

  Francis Bacon (1818). “The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant Sentences, Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and Evil”, p.54

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