Essays Quotes
No.	Quotation	Last Name	First Name	Source
1	Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.	Bacon		Essays
2	He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.	Bacon		Essays
3	A man is an ill husband of his honour, that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him.	Bacon		Essays
4	Fame, if like a river, beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.	Bacon		Essays
5	Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.	Bacon		Essays
6	Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.	Bacon	Francis	Essays
7	Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.	Bacon	Francis	Essays
8	The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.	Bacon	Francis	Essays
9	Time is the greatest innovator.	Bacon	Francis	Essays
10	A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.	Bacon	Francis	Essays

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