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  • O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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    "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh".

  • Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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    Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

  • Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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  • The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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

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  • Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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  • The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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    Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

  • Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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  • Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

  • It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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    'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 23, sect. 45

  • Time is the greatest innovator.

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    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

  • But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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    'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8

  • They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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    'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

  • 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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  • The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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    "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
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Francis Bacon

  • Born: January 22, 1561
  • Died: April 9, 1626
  • Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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