Francis Bacon Quotes, Artist Quotes, Long Quotes

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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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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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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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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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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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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