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... side a man's self whilst he is in the rising , and to balance himself when he is placed . Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and tenderly ; for if thou dost not , it is a debt will sure be paid when thou art gone . If thou have ...
... side a man's self whilst he is in the rising , and to balance himself when he is placed . Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and tenderly ; for if thou dost not , it is a debt will sure be paid when thou art gone . If thou have ...
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... side , there is a natural malignity ; for there be that in their nature do not affect the good of others . The lighter sort of malignity turneth but to a crossness , or frowardness , or aptness to oppose , or difficil- ness , 20 or the ...
... side , there is a natural malignity ; for there be that in their nature do not affect the good of others . The lighter sort of malignity turneth but to a crossness , or frowardness , or aptness to oppose , or difficil- ness , 20 or the ...
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... side , to be deceived with too long shadows ( as some have been when the moon was low , and shone on their enemies ' back ) , and so to shoot off before the time , or to teach dangers to come on , by over - early buckling towards them ...
... side , to be deceived with too long shadows ( as some have been when the moon was low , and shone on their enemies ' back ) , and so to shoot off before the time , or to teach dangers to come on , by over - early buckling towards them ...
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... union strength- eneth and cherisheth any natural action , and , on the other side , weakeneth and dulleth any violent impression 52 and even so is it of minds . The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sove- reign 24 BACON'S ESSAYS .
... union strength- eneth and cherisheth any natural action , and , on the other side , weakeneth and dulleth any violent impression 52 and even so is it of minds . The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sove- reign 24 BACON'S ESSAYS .
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... side , heat and vivacity in age is an excellent composition 10 for business . Young men are fitter to invent then to judge , fitter for execution then for counsel , and fitter for new projects then for set- OF YOUTH AND AGE . 12 16 33 ...
... side , heat and vivacity in age is an excellent composition 10 for business . Young men are fitter to invent then to judge , fitter for execution then for counsel , and fitter for new projects then for set- OF YOUTH AND AGE . 12 16 33 ...
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Page 2 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 4 - 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 2 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 1 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 4 - 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 wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 2 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 25 - The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts: neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend; but before you come to that, certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding...
Page 15 - ... as the place deserveth, but not long ; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town to another, which is a great adamant of acquaintance ; let him sequester himself from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth...
Page 35 - All practice is to discover, or to work. Men discover themselves in trust, in passion, at unawares ; and of necessity, when they would have somewhat done, and cannot find an apt pretext. If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him ; or his ends, and so persuade him ; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him ; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
Page xii - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.