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Silence is the virtue of fools. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#silence #virtue

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

— Francis Bacon

#discoverers #ill #land #nothing #sea

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

— Francis Bacon

#green #heal #his #keeps #man

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

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#acquainted #alone #gets #goes #himself

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

— Francis Bacon

#creatures #first #innovations #living #living creatures

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#pleasant #variety

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#comforts #fears #hopes #many #prosperity

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. ↗

— Russell Banks

#artistic #become #began #boy #drifted

There are so many decisions in making a movie. ↗

— Rick Baker

#making #many #movie

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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