Poems List

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Truth’

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Truth’; see Bible 49:8

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Travel’

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Suspicion’

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Studies’

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Studies’

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Studies’

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Studies’

3

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Seditions and Troubles’

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Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Essays (1625) ‘Of Studies’

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