Review: Bacon's Essays

Bacon's Essays by Francis Bacon

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"Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it. In sickness, respect health principally; and in health, action."

"There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"There are numbers of the like kind; especially if you include dreams, and predictions of astrology. But I have set down these few only, of certain credit, for example. My judgment is, that they ought all to be despised; and ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. Though when I say despised, I mean it as for belief; for otherwise, the spreading, or publishing, of them, is in no sort to be despised. For they have done much mischief; and I see many severe laws made, to suppress them. That that hath given them grace, and some credit, consisteth in three things. First, that men mark when they hit, and never mark when they miss; as they do generally also of dreams. The second is, that probable conjectures, or obscure traditions, many times turn themselves into prophecies..."



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