Part i. Chap. 4.
For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they
are the money of fools.
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FRANCIS BACON.
1561-1626.
Essay viii. _Of Marriage and Single Life_.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for
they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Essay 1. _Of Studies_.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested.
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact
man.
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Histories make men wise, poets witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural
philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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JOHN MILTON.
1608-1674.
_Tract on Education_.
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant,
it were an injury and a sullennes against Nature not to go out and see
her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
_The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty_.
_Introduction to Book 2_.
A poet soaring in the high reason of his
fancy, with his garland and singing robes, about him.
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