Francis Bacon Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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Riches are for spending.

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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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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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

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By far the best proof is experience.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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