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The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before. - Advancement of Learning (bk. II) [Sun] But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him. - An Advertisement Touching a Holy War--Epistle Dedicatory [Publishing] Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect. - Aphorism III [Knowledge] Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. - quoted in Apothegm (97) [Age] One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through." - Apothegms (no. 181) [Law] Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones. - Apothegms (no. 54) [Strawberries] Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Certain Apophthegms of Lord Bacon (no. IV) [Anger] Acorns were good till bread was found. - Colours of Good and Evil (6), quoted from Juvenal's "Satires" (XIV, 181) [Eating] If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. - De Augmentis (bk. I) [Certainty : Doubt] Knowledge itself is power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scienta potestas est.] - De Heresibus [Knowledge] So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit.] - De Sapientia Veterum (6, Pan, sive Natura) [Government] Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. - Essay XLII--Of Youth and Age [Age] Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Essay--Of Studies [Books] The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it. - Essay--On Goodness [Charity] (He) put that which was most material in the postscript. - Essays (93), (Arber's ed.) [Post] Come home to men's business and bosoms. - Essays (dedication of edition 9) [Business] It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self." - quoted in Essays (X, On Love) [Flattery] Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. - Essays Civil and Moral--Of Vicissitude of Things [Learning] All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing. - Essays on Empire [Law] A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Essays--Atheism [Philosophy] And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak. - Essays--Civil and Moral--Of Discourse (no. 32) [Speech] For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast. - Essays--Civil and Moral--Of Friendship [Society] There's a snake in the grass. [Lat., Anguis sub viridi herba.] - quoted in Essays--Of a King [Danger] Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. - Essays--Of Adversity [Virtue] I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. - Essays--Of Atheism [Mind] Displaying page 13 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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