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... sure to be long in coming , " Of Dispatch . This same es- say contains the well - known English proverb , ' the more haste , the less speed , ' in the form of Bacon's apothegm about his diplomatic chief , Sir Amias Paulet , who was wont ...
... sure to be long in coming , " Of Dispatch . This same es- say contains the well - known English proverb , ' the more haste , the less speed , ' in the form of Bacon's apothegm about his diplomatic chief , Sir Amias Paulet , who was wont ...
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... sure of consciences were commonly interessed therein themselves for their own ends . IV . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a kind of wild justice ; which the more man's nature runs to , the more ought law to weed it out . For as for the first ...
... sure of consciences were commonly interessed therein themselves for their own ends . IV . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a kind of wild justice ; which the more man's nature runs to , the more ought law to weed it out . For as for the first ...
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... sure to make good their own folly . IX . OF ENVY . THERE be none of the affections which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch , but love and envy . They both have vehement wishes ; they frame them- selves readily into imaginations ...
... sure to make good their own folly . IX . OF ENVY . THERE be none of the affections which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch , but love and envy . They both have vehement wishes ; they frame them- selves readily into imaginations ...
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... sure rule , that if the envy upon the minister be great , when the cause of it in him is small ; or if the envy be general in a manner upon all the ministers of an estate ; then the envy ( though hidden ) is truly upon the state itself ...
... sure rule , that if the envy upon the minister be great , when the cause of it in him is small ; or if the envy be general in a manner upon all the ministers of an estate ; then the envy ( though hidden ) is truly upon the state itself ...
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... sure be paid when thou art gone . If thou have colleagues , respect them , and rather call them when they look not for it , than exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too sensi- ble or too remembering of thy ...
... sure be paid when thou art gone . If thou have colleagues , respect them , and rather call them when they look not for it , than exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too sensi- ble or too remembering of thy ...
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Page 233 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 233 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 5 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Page 29 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Page 23 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 10 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 7 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Page 109 - ... if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Page 213 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Page 119 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.