Francis Bacon Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Praise Quotes

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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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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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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