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Quote by Francis Bacon
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or disple

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

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Virtue
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Francis Bacon
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This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. – Francis Bacon

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Nature
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Francis Bacon
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Things are beautiful if you love them. – Jean Anouilh

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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of mans cruelty and baseness. – Bryant H. McGill

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Art

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. – Samuel Butler

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Art

Its a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W. H. Auden

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Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. – Author Unknown

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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. – Alfred E. Smith

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