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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature. - Essays--Of Atheism [God] Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. - Essays--Of Beauty [Virtue] Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill." - Essays--Of Boldness [Faith : Policy] Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. - Essays--Of Building [Architecture] The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. - Essays--Of Counsel [Trust] There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. - Essays--Of Cunning [Deceit] It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. - Essays--Of Death [Death] Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. - Essays--Of Death [Death] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. - Essays--Of Discourse [Speech] Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest. - Essays--Of Empire [Royalty] Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - Essays--Of Fortune [Fortune] Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. - Essays--Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature [Goodness] There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. - Essays--Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature [Religion] Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. - Essays--Of Judicature [Judges] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. - Essays--Of Marriage and Single Life [Matrimony] A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. - Essays--Of Nature in Men [Culture] A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. - Essays--Of Regimen of Health [Medicine] Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. - Essays--Of Studies [Education : Study] Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Essays--Of Studies [Learning : Reading] But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. - Essays--Of Truth [Truth] We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. - Historia Vitoe et Mortis [Flies] Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.] - Humble Submission and Supplication to the Lords of Parliament [Vice] Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. - Libraries [Libraries] If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render at my death. - Life and Times of Francis the First (vol. I, p. 46, of ed. 2) [Service] Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow, the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though drawn by a child. - Life of Johnson (vol. 4, p. 80) [Argument] Displaying page 14 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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