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Quote by Francis Bacon
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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Imagination
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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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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. – Francis Bacon

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Doubt
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A hundred years cannot repair a moments loss of honor. – Proverb

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. – David Borenstein

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. – Benjamin Franklin

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Few people know how to be old. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Moms cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. – Peter Agre

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True strength is delicate. – Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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