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Spin Cycles Satiate

Spin Cycles SatiateSilence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Existential Extinction is Silencing the Silent - A planksip® Tragedy All Around UsWhat makes you write today? Wrong turns,

Essays of Francis Bacon

Are you sure you are at the right family reunion?

Are you sure you are at the right family reunion?For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is

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The Dissent of Man

The Dissent of ManAll colors will agree in the dark. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Ordered Chaos and the Wonder of Wonder - Another planksip® MöbiusWhat makes you write today? Wrong turns, bad

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A Symmetry

A SymmetryThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) A Symmetry is Not Asymmetrical but Sounds Like it Is - A planksip® MöbiusWhat

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Metaphysical Dialectic

Metaphysical DialecticIn order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) A Jewish Man of Integrity Will Free Man - The Will Free Man

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Only if he regresses towards the mean

Regression being mean is also a statistical average. The double entendre is a playground pun in opposition to benevolence, yet oh so peaceful. Now that's a contradiction in certain terms.

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The only organic alternative to consumerism

The only organic alternative to consumerismSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Round and Round We Go

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Write what's wrong

Write what's wrongReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Irony Runs Deep Being from a Dead Animal - A Known

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All we need is time

All we need is timeHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Measured in Increments of 50 Milliseconds - A planksip® MöbiusWhat makes you write

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Logos of the Political Palindrome; Redivider, deified, civic and Wow!

Logos of the Political Palindrome; Redivider, deified, civic and Wow!Knowledge is power - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Money's Lunch - A planksip® Palindrome only at NoonWhat makes you write today? Wrong turns,

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A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases

Abridgment: miniature Absurd: stupid, unpolished Abuse: cheat, deceive Aculeate: stinging Adamant: loadstone Adust: scorched Advoutress: adulteress Affect: like, desire Antic: clown Appose: question Arietation: battering-ram Audit: revenue Avoidance: secret outlet Battle: battalion Bestow:

Essays of Francis Bacon

Of Fame

THE poets make Fame a monster. They describe her in part finely and elegantly, and in part gravely and sententiously. They say, look how many feathers she hath, so many eyes she hath

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Of Vicissitude of Things

SOLOMON saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, That all novelty is but

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Of Anger

TO SEEK to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must

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Of Judicature

JUDGES ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law. Else will it be like the authority, claimed

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Of Honor and Reputation

THE winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man,s virtue and worth, without disadvantage. For some in their actions, do woo and effect honor and reputation, which sort of men,

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Of Vain-glory

IT WAS prettily devised of AEsop, The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! So are there some vain persons, that whatsoever goeth

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Of Praise

PRAISE is the reflection of virtue; but it is as the glass or body, which giveth the reflection. If it be from the common people, it is commonly false and naught; and rather

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Of Ceremonies, and Respects

HE THAT is only real, had need have exceeding great parts of virtue; as the stone had need to be rich, that is set without foil. But if a man mark it well,

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Of Faction

MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great person to govern his proceedings, according to the respect of factions, is a principal part

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Of Studies

STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition

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Of Suitors

COSTLY followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. I reckon to be costly, not them alone which charge the purse, but

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Of Followers and Friends

COSTLY followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. I reckon to be costly, not them alone which charge the purse, but

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Of Negotiating

IT IS generally better to deal by speech than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man's self. Letters are good, when a man would draw an answer

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Of Gardens

GOD Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross