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Of Prophecies
I MEAN not to speak of divine prophecies; nor of heathen oracles; nor of natural predictions; but...
Of Riches
I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. Fo...
Of Plantations
PLANTATIONS are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works. When the world was young, it bega...
Of the True Greatness Of Kingdoms And Estates
THE speech of Themistocles the Athenian, which was haughty and arrogant, in taking so much to him...
Of Discourse
SOME, in their discourse, desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments,...
Of Suspicion
SUSPICIONS amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly th...
Of Regiment Of Health
THERE is a wisdom in this; beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds goo...
Of Expense
RICHES are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions. Therefore extraordinary expense...
Of Friendship
IT HAD been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, ...
Of Seeming Wise
IT HATH been an opinion, that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser t...
Of Dispatch
AFFECTED dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, w...
Of Innovations
AS THE births of living creatures, at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the...
Of Wisdom For A Man's Self
AN ANT is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden. And cert...
Of Cunning
WE TAKE cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. And certainly there is a great difference, betw...
Of Delays
FORTUNE is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Again...
Of Counsel
THE greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences...
Of Empire
IT IS a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire, and many things to fear; and yet t...
Of Travel
TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience. He that ...
Of Superstition
IT WERE better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him. For...
Of Atheism
I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that thi...