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The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being as apt for it , as any foreing parts.
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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.
Francis Bacon
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
Francis Bacon -
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis Bacon -
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
Francis Bacon -
Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.
Francis Bacon
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Reading maketh a full man.
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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.
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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Francis Bacon