Francis Bacon Quotes, Reality Quotes, Matter Quotes

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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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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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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