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«The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.»
«Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Envy
| Keywords:
comparing, comparison, comparisons, joined
«Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.»
«Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
intercourse, social intercourse
«Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.»
«Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
constructions, inference, inferences, Judges, strained, torture
«The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Desire
| Keywords:
caused, charity, come into, excess, fallen angel, No Angel
«Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Communication,
Discretion,
Speech
| Keywords:
agreeably, discretion, eloquence, in good order
«Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Humanity,
Logic,
Mankind,
Mathematics,
Morality,
Philosophy,
Poets
| Keywords:
contend, Histories, moral philosophy, natural history, natural philosophy, rhetoric, witty
«Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
and the like, deluge, deluges, evidences, fragmented, fragments, monuments, passages, Proverbs, records, recover, somewhat, The Deluge, the like, Traditions
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