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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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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
JOHN MILTON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
FRANCIS BACON But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death...
FRANCIS BACON This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you a...
ROBERT GOOLRICK Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left wit...
DOUG RICE All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the...
JANET MALCOLM I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho...
MARK RYLANCE If we do not have reconciliation, we will not be able to heal the wounds, they will remain open. We ...
DAHO DJERBAL What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear Th...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) We would be wrong to hide our extreme disappointment, and the wounds of that disappointment will not...
CHRIS MOLLER Time does not heal all wounds, you do...
N. S. COLE Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the though...
MOLIERE I like eggs and bacon," George tells me. "But" - his face clouds - "do you know that bacon is" - tea...
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness...
BELL HOOKS Truthful Lie;Lieing that helps heal our emotional & psychological wounds.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ...
DEYTH BANGER For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting i...
FRANCIS HUTCHESON It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wron...
CRISS JAMI Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
DOUG LARSON Deep wounds do not heal easily, but I think this will be a first step toward some reconciliation and...
LONNIE RANDOLPH It’s never too late to drop your beliefs and let your wounds heal. Instead of wounding others as w...
ADAM SCYTHE Wounds that fail to heal are a hidden epidemic as our population ages and people become vulnerable t...
JAMES PATRICK It is impossible to love and to be wise.
FRANCIS BACON SR. There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
AUGUSTE VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can p...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.
KRISTIN HANNAH If anything, the scandals have made me want to become a priest even more. It would bring me great jo...
DAN DEMATTE You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
STEVEN ADLER Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.
JOSé N. HARRIS I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lack...
LUCIAN FREUD Wounds may heal, but the scars remain.
REYNA PRYDE It is unfortunate for our peace, that unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the pow...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The purpose of the software is to manage what can't be managed well otherwise. That implies a certai...
JEFF TANNER Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entre...
JERRY SALTZ Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Alb...
ALYSON NOEL That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life ...
RICHARD OWEN Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
ANTONIO MACHADO I don't know if scars heal, but I know wounds heal, that's for sure.
TOMMY POLO Smithy is pretty well entrenched in origin now, which is a huge rap for a kid his age ? so I'd imagi...
CRAIG BELLAMY Certainly, time can heal the deepest of wounds. A scar is often inevitable, though!
MOSTAFA BAKOUSH Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people l...
SIMON RATTLE Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is s...
EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
WILLIAM LAMB MELBOURNE We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
MAO ZEDONG We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting
MAO TSE-TUNG That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
RICHARD STEELE SR. That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
RICHARD STEELE, SR. I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the brok...
LAUREN OLIVER It is when you are able to see many things far off that you can heal the wounds of the past
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Revenge brings life's illnesses only forgiveness can heal.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is Europe's response to the end of the Cold War and an opportunity to heal the wounds of the past...
GUENTER VERHEUGEN Amit Fadnavis and his BMC would do well to comply with the people's wishes otherwise he will have to...
APURVA GAGLANI I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a ...
DAMIEN HIRST He is absolutely not guilty and did not strike that woman. The last thing this man would want to do ...
ORLANDO GONZALEZ Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead,...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ...
PAT BUCKLEY What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them i...
MEL GIBSON If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
ROBERT E. LEE Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to ...
NINA GUILBEAU It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.
BILL COSBY to heal
you have to
get to the root
of the wound
and kiss it all the way up
RUPI KAUR He thought going to this march would help them (the families) heal. As he has said, his heart got a ...
DELACEY SKINNER To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed.
JORDAN CARL CURTIS I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many...
DAVID LYNCH He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-br...
CHARLES DICKENS I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, ju...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
THOMAS ALDRICH The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER We who reject Trump's bankrupt leadership must heal old wounds, reorient ourselves, and embrace ...
DAVID BROCK Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the d...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. In every heart there is a roomA sanctuary safe and strongTo heal the wounds from lovers pastUntil a ...
BILLY JOEL I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.
COLONEL SANDERS Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his visio...
NORMAN MAILER My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain...
ORIGEN When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting femal...
JERRY SALTZ There should be a much more fluid and positive relationship in all fields, ... I think that to a cer...
CARLOS MENEM He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge ...
MARIO PUZO Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon saus...
TERRY JONES There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't kno...
CARLISLE FLOYD Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane ...
JOHN STEINBACK Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted
FRANTZ FANOS Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character...
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FRANCIS BACON Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
FRANCIS BACON The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
FRANCIS BACON A good conscience is a continual feast.
FRANCIS BACON The wisdom of our ancestors.
FRANCIS BACON Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
FRANCIS BACON Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON Boldness is a child of ignorance.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the w...
FRANCIS BACON