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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks and mummeries of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. - [Truth] Tunes and airs have in themselves some affinity with the affections,--as merry tunes, doleful tunes, solemn tunes, tunes inclining men's minds to pity, warlike tunes,--so that it is no marvel if they alter the spirits, considering that tunes have a predisposition to the motion of the spirits. - [Music] Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. - [Celibacy] Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. - [Usury] Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. - [Vanity] Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. - [Virtue] We cannot think too oft there is a never, never-sleeping Eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts. - [God] We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom; and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man, not only in point of honesty, but in point of ability. - [Cunning] What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die. - ascribed to, a paraphrase of a Greek epigram [Death] When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight. - [Counsel] When any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened--which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure--men need to pray for fair weather. - [Government] When things are come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity. - [Procrastination] Whereas they have sacrificed to themselves, they become sacrificers to the inconstancy of fortune, whose wings they thought, by their self-wisdom, to have pinioned. - [Fortune] Who taught the parrot his "Welcome?" Who taught the raven in a drought to throw pebbles into a hollow tree where she espied water, that the water might rise so as she might come to it? Who taught the bee to sail through such a vast sea of air, and to find the way from a flower in a field to her hive? Who taught the ant to bite every grain of corn that she burieth in her hill, lest it should take root and grow? - [Instinct] Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. - [Impatience] Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. - [Friendship] Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him; it is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. - [Wisdom] Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past. - [Words] The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?] - 9. Laus, Existimatio [Public] For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. - Advancement of Learning [Cleanliness] Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. - Advancement of Learning [Words] For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. - Advancement of Learning (bk. I) [Knowledge] But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. - Advancement of Learning (bk. I, Advantages of Learning) [Books] States are great engines moving slowly. - Advancement of Learning (bk. II) [Government] That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off." - Advancement of Learning (bk. II) [Fortune] Displaying page 12 of 15 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13 14 15
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