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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon in
Imagination
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon in
Art
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Francis Bacon in
Death
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
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