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... sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds niceness and satiety : 30 Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor miserable ...
... sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds niceness and satiety : 30 Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser , sed etiam fastidiosus potest . A man would die , though he were neither valiant nor miserable ...
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... the thorn or briar , which prick and scratch , because they can do no other . The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs 20 which there is no law to remedy : but then , let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no.
... the thorn or briar , which prick and scratch , because they can do no other . The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs 20 which there is no law to remedy : but then , let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no.
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... sort of politicians that are the greatest dis- s semblers . Tacitus saith , Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband and dissimulation of her son ; attributing arts of policy to Augustus , and dissimulation to Tiberius . And again ...
... sort of politicians that are the greatest dis- s semblers . Tacitus saith , Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband and dissimulation of her son ; attributing arts of policy to Augustus , and dissimulation to Tiberius . And again ...
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... sort with mean company , and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty . And therefore the proof is best when men keep their 30 authority towards their children , but not their purse . Men have a foolish manner ( both parents ...
... sort with mean company , and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty . And therefore the proof is best when men keep their 30 authority towards their children , but not their purse . Men have a foolish manner ( both parents ...
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... sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning them- 100 selves what a life they lead , chanting a quanta patimur . Not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy . But this is to be understood of ...
... sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning them- 100 selves what a life they lead , chanting a quanta patimur . Not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy . But this is to be understood of ...
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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 185 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 184 - 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.
Page 1 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty...
Page 91 - 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.
Page 2 - But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 166 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 2 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 4 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it...
Page 186 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...