Francis Bacon Quotes, Men Quotes, Age Quotes

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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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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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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Whatever you can, count.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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