Francis Bacon Quotes, Art Quotes, Attitude Quotes

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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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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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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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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