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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Silence is the virtue of fools. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor. ↗

— Rick Baker

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