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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.


Francis Bacon

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JACQUES ELLUL Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
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ANTHONY TROLLOPE This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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IAN BROWN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Freedom is more than just a word and patriotic concept. It is the purest intent of God.
STEVE MARABOLI Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic.
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INA GARTEN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. To look in the eyes of the one you live with & see true love is indeed the purest of pleasures.
FAYE HALL When God created the Garden of Eden,
She became the first permaculturalist.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people l...
SIMON RATTLE Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly plante...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON Eden is a factory and human was a reject.
We are being recalled in order to be fixed.
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JOHN HEYWOOD I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all...
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SAID NURSI Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of ...
GIOTTO DI BONDONE One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.
JOHN MARK GREEN Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifeti...
CHINESE PROVERB Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a life...
CHINESE PROVERB Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifeti...
CHINESE PROVERBS The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God"...
FREDERICK WARD KATES When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting femal...
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JERRY SALTZ I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when tha...
GEORGE W. BUSH Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.
SOURCE UNKNOWN God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his ...
KYLE IDLEMAN God Almighty hates a quitter.
SAMUEL FESSENDEN That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
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JOHN MUIR God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
JEAN PAUL The purest thought comes from mediation on word of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.'

A single see...
JENNIFER SODINI Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Alb...
ALYSON NOEL One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 the...
RACHEL LAMBERT MELLON Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human natur...
JOHN ADAMS I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
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AUSTIN PHELPS But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death...
FRANCIS BACON It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
OSWALD CHAMBERS But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected w...
MARK RYLANCE So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who kno...
WENDELL BERRY Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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DAMIEN HIRST Take care of the people, and god almighty will take care of himself.
KURT VONNEGUT We're getting ready for the future. We've cultivated and planted a garden and it's starting to grow....
RICHARD ALEXANDER The garden of God is full of ripen fruits.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love tha...
FRANCES FARMER As we read, ponder, and pray, there will come into our minds a view of the three gardens of God—th...
BRUCE R. MCCONKIE Only God Almighty makes painters
GODFREY KNELLER Awe-inspiring God.
Amazing God.
Awesome God.
Almighty God.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly ac...
ALBERT EINSTEIN It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the l...
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THOMAS KEMPIS You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a consta...
THOMAS À KEMPIS The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
MARTIN LUTHER Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can sa...
ABRAHAM CLARK The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
FRANK BUTLER A Christian's faith in Christ is not of their own but given to the Christian by an Almighty God.
NORM TOMLINSON God is everyone's pleasure and also a prejudice!
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Thinking about the bacon- the potential of bacon- gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.
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NORM TOMLINSON The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
G. K. CHESTERTON The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed...
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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 Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increas...
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