Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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I would live to study, not study to live.Francis Bacon
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
Francis Bacon
This same Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle lights.
Francis Bacon
Perils commonly ask to be paid on pleasures.
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had
Francis Bacon
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon
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