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Neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes should ever become valiant and martial.
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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
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A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.
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For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.
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Men in great place are thrice servants,—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them; for if there be fuel prepared it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
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A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will continue.
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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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A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.
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It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter.
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man: insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
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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.
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Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal.
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Neither is money the sinews of war (as it is trivially said).
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So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and endings of things.
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Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
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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.
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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love.
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Born:
January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
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