Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Source: Of Seditions and Troubles
Contributed by: Zaady
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
Source: Essays. Of Suspicion
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
All colors will agree in the dark.
Source: Essays. Of Unity of Religion
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, 'The fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.'
Source: Essays. Of Vain-Glory
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Source: Essays. Of Beauty
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Source: Advancement of Learning, book 2, chapter 7 (1605)
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