Francis Bacon Quotes, Hands Quotes, Giving Quotes

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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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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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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God loveth the clean.

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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