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He that travels into a country before he has some entrance into the language, goeth to school and not to travel. - [Travel] Hope is a leaf-joy which may be beaten out to a great extension, like gold. - [Hope] I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue; the Roman word is better, impedimenta; for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. - [Riches] I have taken all knowledge to be my province. - [Knowledge] I knew a wise man who had it for a by-word when he saw men hasten to a conclusion: "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner." - [Caution] I know not how, but martial men are given to love. I think it is but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. - [Bravery] I take all knowledge to be my province. - [Knowledge] I will say positively and resolutely that is it impossible an elective monarchy should be so free and absolute as an hereditary. - [Politics] If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. - [Courtesy] If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters. - [Logic] If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for, though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - [Fortune] If a man read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. - [Reading] If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - [Mathematics] If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. - [Literature] If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him. - [Covetousness] If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. - [Vice] Imagination I understand to be the representation of an individual thought. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present. - [Imagination] Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - [Imagination] In all other human gifts and passions, though they advance nature, yet they are subject to excess; but charity alone admits no excess. For so we see, by aspiring to be like God in power the angels transgressed and fell; by aspiring to be like God in knowledge man transgressed and fell; but by aspiring to be like God in goodness or love, neither man nor angel ever did or shall transgress. For unto that imitation we are called. - [Charity] In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - [Doubt] In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution not to see them unless they be very great. - [Danger] In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. - [Nature] In regard of our deliverance past, and our danger present and to come, let us look up to God, and every man reform his own ways. - [Reformation] In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression. - [Revenge] In States, arms and learning have a concurrence or near sequence in time. - [States] Displaying page 5 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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