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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity
is not without comforts and hopes.
Topic: Adversity
Source: Of Adversity
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Age
Source: Essay XLII--Of Youth and Age
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost 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 standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
Topic: Ancestry
Source: (according to Lord Brougham), also attributed to Edmund Burke "Observations on a Late Publication on
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Topic: Anger
Source: Certain Apophthegms of Lord Bacon (no. IV)
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use
be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Topic: Architecture
Source: Essays--Of Building
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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- Francis Bacon,
Topic: Authority
Source: Natural History--Century X--Touching emission of immateriate virtues, etc.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Topic: Bachelors
Source: None
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
Adversity is the blessing of the New.
Topic: Blessings
Source: Of Adversity
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A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
Topic: Body
Source: None
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Boldness is a child of ignorance.
Topic: Boldness
Source: None
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Topic: Boldness
Source: None
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual
renovation.
Topic: Books
Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. I, Advantages of Learning)
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested.
Topic: Books
Source: Essay--Of Studies
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Topic: Books
Source: Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
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Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
Topic: Business
Source: Essays (dedication of edition 9)
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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.
Topic: Certainty
Source: None
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Topic: Change
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Charity
Source: Essay--On Goodness
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due
reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Topic: Cleanliness
Source: Advancement of Learning
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
Topic: Consistency
Source: None
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Topic: Court
Source: None
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Topic: Courtesy
Source: None
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Topic: Cunning
Source: None
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Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Topic: Custom
Source: None
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Topic: Custom
Source: None
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant,
perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Topic: Death
Source: Essays--Of Death
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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.
Topic: Death
Source: Essays--Of Death
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the
cat in the pan.
Topic: Deceit
Source: Essays--Of Cunning
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
Topic: Despair
Source: None
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