Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'. Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. 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. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Of perfidious friends: ‘We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.’, Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not. He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. —Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. Write down the thoughts of the moment. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome seldom extinguished. The art of invention grows young with the things invented. Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. boldness; what second and third? Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. Terms & conditions / Privacy & Cookie Policy. Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the 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. In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. Francis Bacon quote: It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tosed 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. The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth. Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied. All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. Knowledge is a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, ‘If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.’. A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others. I am standing upon the seashore. Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. 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. A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely. 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. Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet. It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics) that, ‘the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.’. Studies teach not their own use; that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. I would live to study, not study to live. There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God. The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. Beauty is like summer fruits which are easy to corrupt and cannot last. A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will continue. Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.). Money is a good servant but a bad master. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse. 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. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain. ‘A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.’. The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. 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. I will never be an old man. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth. Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. There is one radical distinction between different minds… that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the differences of things, others mark their resemblances. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. All good moral philosophy is but a handmaid to religion. Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

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