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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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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Humor
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Francis Bacon
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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?. – Francis Bacon

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Problems
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Francis Bacon
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. – Francis Bacon

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Change
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Francis Bacon
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Other Quotes from
Art
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Art

A fools brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw

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Art

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. – Agnes Martin

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Art

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. – Henry Louis Gates

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Art

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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. – David Hume

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Customs

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. – Emily Dickinson

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alone

Its tricky. Ive never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. Ive never really had a profile. So in a way I have this nothing to lose attitude. – Joel Edgerton

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Attitude

I dont think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldnt surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number? – Andy Rooney

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Government