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Quote by Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul t

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

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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. – Francis Bacon

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Experience
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. – Francis Bacon

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Gossip
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A bachelors life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. – Francis Bacon

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Life
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, theres no such thing as perfect. – Alexander Calder

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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isnt any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument. – Jerry Saltz

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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. – Paul Cezanne

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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. – Joan Miro

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