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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Time, which is the author of authors.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Silence is the virtue of a fool.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
States as great engines move slowly.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Only charity admitteth no excess. For so we see, aspiring to be like God in power, the angels transgressed and fell; Ascendam, et ero similis altissimo: by aspiring to be like God in knowledge, man transgressed and fell; Eritis sicut Dii, scientes bonum et malum: but by aspiring to a similitude of God in goodness or love, neither man nor angel ever transgressed, or shall transgress.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
As we divided natural philosophy in general into the inquiry of causes, and productions of effects: so that part which concerneth the inquiry of causes we do subdivide according to the received and sound division of causes. The one part, which is physic, inquireth and handleth the material and efficient causes; and the other, which is metaphysic, handleth the formal and final causes.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
The obliteration of the evil hath been practised by two means, some kind of redemption or expiation of that which is past, and an inception or account de novo for the time to come. But this part seemeth sacred and religious, and justly; for all good moral philosophy (as was said) is but a handmaid to religion.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)