Quotes from Meditationes sacræ — Francis Bacon
1561–1626 England
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
For a man to love again where he is loved, it is the charity of publicans contracted by mutual profit and good offices; but to love a man's enemies is one of the cunningest points of the law of Christ, and an imitation of the divine nature.
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
"You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God" This canon is the mother of all canons against heresy; the causes of error are two; the ignorance of the will of God, and the ignorance or not sufficient consideration of his power.
Meditationes sacræ (1597)