Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner."
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Aphorisms by Francis Bacon
Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and so they have their revenge of nature.
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Intermingle... jest with earnest.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.
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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.
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Above all, every relation must be considered as suspicious, which depends in any degree upon religion, as the prodigies of Livy: and no less so, everything that is to be found in the writers of natural magic or alchemy, or such authors, who seem, all of them, to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and fable.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.
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