Essay

  1        1|       ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were
  2        1|           light, into the face of man; and still he breatheth
  3        1|      heaven upon earth, to have a man’s mind move in charity,
  4        1|          dealing, is the honor of man’s nature; and that mixture
  5        1|        vice, that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found
  6        1|       well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say,
  7        1|       faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of
  8        2|          of mortification, that a man should think with himself,
  9        2|          philosopher, and natural man, it was well said, Pompa
 10        2|         no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates,
 11        2|       such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants
 12        2|       etiam fastidiosus potest. A man would die, though he were
 13        2|         is, Nunc dimittis; when a man hath obtained worthy ends,
 14        3|       arbitrament between God and man. Both these extremes are
 15        3|    ingenious, than substantial. A man that is of judgment and
 16        3|        judgment, which is between man and man, shall we not think
 17        3|          which is between man and man, shall we not think that
 18        4|           justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more
 19        4|   Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy;
 20        4|       saith, It is the glory of a man, to pass by an offence.
 21        4|         past matters. There is no man doth a wrong, for the wrong’
 22        4|          should I be angry with a man, for loving himself better
 23        4|        better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely
 24        4|         to remedy; but then let a man take heed, the revenge be
 25        4|          no law to punish; else a man’s enemy is still before
 26        4|           This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps
 27        5|           in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
 28        6|           distinguished. For if a man have that penetration of
 29        6|          and a poorness. But if a man cannot obtain to that judgment,
 30        6|           dissembler. For where a man cannot choose, or vary in
 31        6|           hiding and veiling of a man’s self. The first, closeness,
 32        6|  reservation, and secrecy; when a man leaveth himself without
 33        6|           in the negative; when a man lets fall signs and arguments,
 34        6|           the affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly
 35        6|         And assuredly, the secret man heareth many confessions.
 36        6|       blab or a babbler? But if a man be thought secret, it inviteth
 37        6|        use, but for the ease of a man’s heart, so secret men come
 38        6|           part, it is good that a man’s face give his tongue leave
 39        6|            For the discovery of a man’s self, by the tracts of
 40        6|      marked, and believed, than a man’s words.~For the second,
 41        6|          too cunning, to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage
 42        6|        side. They will so beset a man with questions, and draw
 43        6|         hold out long. So that no man can be secret, except he
 44        6|           faults, which because a man must needs disguise, it
 45        6|          to surprise. For where a man’s intentions are published,
 46        6|        second is, to reserve to a man’s self a fair retreat. For
 47        6|          a fair retreat. For if a man engage himself by a manifest
 48        6|     operate with him; and makes a man walk almost alone, to his
 49        6|           is, that it depriveth a man of one of the most principal
 50        7|       proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works
 51        7|          son shames the mother. A man shall see, where there is
 52        8|       Such an one is a great rich man, and another except to it,
 53        8|         old men’s nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry,
 54        8|           to the question, when a man should marry,– A young man
 55        8|        man should marry,– A young man not yet, an elder man not
 56        8|       young man not yet, an elder man not at all. It is often
 57        9|        public and private envy.~A man that hath no virtue in himself,
 58        9|   depressing another’s fortune.~A man that is busy, and inquisitive,
 59        9|         that an eunuch, or a lame man, did such great matters;
 60        9|         but due unto them; and no man envieth the payment of a
 61        9|           with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there
 62        9|    fashion. For in that course, a man doth but disavow fortune;
 63        9|           love and envy do make a man pine, which other affections
 64        9|        who is called, the envious man, that soweth tares amongst
 65       10|         to love, that the life of man. For as to the stage, love
 66       10|           was indeed a voluptuous man, and inordinate; but the
 67       10|           was an austere and wise man: and therefore it seems (
 68       10|      alteri theatrum sumus; as if man, made for the contemplation
 69       10|           have intelligence, is a man’s self; certainly the lover
 70       10|         For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well
 71       10|         in pleasures. There is in man’s nature, a secret inclination
 72       11|          and to lose power over a man’s self. The rising unto
 73       11|         good works, is the end of man’s motion; and conscience
 74       11|          is the accomplishment of man’s rest. For if a man can
 75       11|           of man’s rest. For if a man can be partaker of God’s
 76       11|          or idle respects, lead a man, he shall never be without.
 77       11|           is not good; for such a man will transgress for a piece
 78       11|       spoken, A place showeth the man. And it showeth some to
 79       11|    factions, it is good to side a man’s self, whilst he is in
 80       11|           in place, he is another man.~ ~
 81       12|       text, but yet worthy a wise man’s consideration. Question
 82       12|        the Deity: and without it, man is a busy, mischievous,
 83       12|       knowledge in excess, caused man to fall: but in charity
 84       12|            neither can angel, nor man, come in danger by it. The
 85       12|           deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue
 86       12|          goodness, are many. If a man be gracious and courteous
 87       15|       little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth
 88       15|   religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes
 89       15|         lip, than in the heart of man, than by this; that atheists
 90       15|          that deny a God, destroy man’s nobility; for certainly
 91       15|           nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts,
 92       15|           himself maintained by a man; who to him is instead of
 93       15|            could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth
 94       16|           say, there was no sitch man at all, as Plutarch, than
 95       16|     towards men. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy,
 96       16|           an ape, to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition
 97       17|          If you will have a young man to put his travel into a
 98       17|       place, and words. And let a man beware, how he keepeth company
 99       18|          all the rest, maketh any man’s heart, hard to find or
100       18|       principle, that the mind of man, is more cheered and refreshed
101       18|     trouble to be prepared for no man can forbid the spark, nor
102       19|           greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of
103       19|   greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving
104       19|          the reeling of a drunken man. Solomon’s son found the
105       20|        their approaches; for if a man watch too long, it is odds
106       20|          which maketh the politic man go invisible, is secrecy
107       21|     difference, between a cunning man, and a wise man; not only
108       21|           cunning man, and a wise man; not only in point of honesty,
109       21|           know a fool from a wise man, Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos,
110       21|  advisedly of that is moved.~If a man would cross a business,
111       21|          Silius.~In things that a man would not be seen in himself,
112       21|         let fall those words in a man’s own name, which he would
113       21|       which he would have another man learn, and use, and thereupon
114       21|          of a monarchy. The first man took hold of it, and found
115       21|       which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays
116       21|           point of cunning, for a man to shape the answer he would
117       21|        doth many times surprise a man, and lay him open. Like
118       22|                   OF WISDOM FOR A MAN’S SELF~An ant is a wise
119       22|          It is a poor centre of a man’s actions, himself. It is
120       22|         The referring of all to a man’s self, is more tolerable
121       22|    whatsoever affairs pass such a man’s hands, he crooketh them
122       22|       their affairs.~Wisdom for a man’s self is, in many branches
123       23|         by imitation. For ill, to man’s nature, as it stands perverted,
124       24|    unsteady manner. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword,
125       25|        certainly it is so between man and man. For as the Apostle
126       25|          it is so between man and man. For as the Apostle saith
127       25|           get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment;
128       25|       better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over–
129       26|           towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage
130       26|         and desire to sequester a man’s self, for a higher conversation:
131       26|          nephew. And this was the man that had power with him,
132       26|          dream of Calpurnia; this man lifted him gently by the
133       26|           these words: I love the man so well, as I wish he may
134       26|           or a Marcus Aurelius, a man might have thought that
135       26|         the heart. Certainly if a man would give it a hard phrase,
136       26|           this communicating of a man’s self to his friend, works
137       26|           halves. For there is no man, that imparteth his joys
138       26|           joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs
139       26|        truth, of operation upon a man’s mind, of like virtue as
140       26|     attribute to their stone, for man’s body; that it worketh
141       26|         faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend;
142       26|     friends as are able to give a man counsel; (they indeed are
143       26|          but even without that, a man learneth of himself, and
144       26|     itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself
145       26|         is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from
146       26|         friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there
147       26|         no such flatterer as is a man’s self; and there is no
148       26|      remedy against flattery of a man’s self, as the liberty of
149       26|          friend. The calling of a man’s self to a strict account,
150       26|         favor. As for business, a man may think, if he will, that
151       26|       than a looker–on; or that a man in anger, is as wise as
152       26|     business straight. And if any man think that he will take
153       26|           in one business, of one man, and in another business,
154       26|      another business, of another man; it is well (that is to
155       26|          wholly acquainted with a man’s estate, will beware, by
156       26|         things there are, which a man cannot do himself; and then
157       26|           work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may
158       26|     continue after him. So that a man hath, as it were, two lives
159       26|           lives in his desires. A man hath a body, and that body
160       26|          things are there which a man cannot, with any face or
161       26|  comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own
162       26|           much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to
163       26|           which are blushing in a man’s own. So again, a man’s
164       26|          a man’s own. So again, a man’s person hath many proper
165       26|        which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son
166       26|           given the rule, where a man cannot fitly play his own
167       27|     undoing, may be as well for a man’s country, as for the kingdom
168       27|          ought to be limited by a man’s estate; and governed with
169       27|           abroad. Certainly, if a man will keep but of even hand,
170       27|        turn all to certainties. A man had need, if he be plentiful
171       27|           decay. In clearing of a man’s estate, he may as well
172       27|        stoop to petty gettings. A man ought warily to begin charges
173       28|     number and courage; so that a man may truly make a judgment,
174       28|           is so plain, that every man profiteth in that, he most
175       28|          general.~To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the
176       28|         in this little model of a man’s body; but in the great
177       29|     beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation, what
178       29|       excesses, which are owing a man till his age. Discern of
179       29|            had he not been a wise man withal, when he giveth it
180       29|        health and lasting, that a man do vary, and interchange
181       29|           may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort;
182       30|         was not a more suspicious man, nor a more stout. And in
183       30|          There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than
184       30|       them as false. For so far a man ought to make use of suspicions,
185       31|         somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance. It is good,
186       31|         state, great persons, any man’s present business of importance,
187       31|         you know not. Speech of a man’s self ought to be seldom,
188       31|           He must needs be a wise man, he speaks so much of himself:
189       31|           but one case, wherein a man may commend himself with
190       31|        without coming home to any man. I knew two noblemen, of
191       33|          personal fruition in any man, cannot reach to feel great
192       33|           imagination of the rich man. But this is excellently
193       33|         they come tumbling upon a man. But it mought be applied
194       33|        the greatest audits of any man in my time; a great grazier,
195       33|      sheep–master, a great timber man, a great collier, a great
196       33|         corn–master, a great lead–man, and so of iron, and a number
197       33|          great riches. For when a man’s stock is come to that,
198       33|      chopping of bargains, when a man buys not to hold but to
199       33|          worst; as that whereby a man doth eat his bread, in sudore
200       33|          the with the first sugar man, in the Canaries. Therefore
201       33|          Canaries. Therefore if a man can play the true logician,
202       33|       death; for, certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that
203       33|         rather liberal of another man’s, than of his own.~ ~
204       34|   prophecies; while the nature of man, which coveteth divination,
205       35|           danger and envy; for no man will take that part, except
206       35|      danger, to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than
207       35|     persons; and the raising of a man’s own fortunes. He that
208       35|         he aspireth, is an honest man; and that prince, that can
209       37|  discontinue altogether. But if a man have the fortitude, and
210       37|     extreme is no vice. Let not a man force a habit upon’ himself,
211       37|           the new onset; and if a man that is not perfect, be
212       37|      intermissions. But let not a man trust his victory over his
213       37|      before her. Therefore, let a man either avoid the occasion
214       37|           little moved with it. A man’s nature is best perceived
215       37|       passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts; and
216       37|          In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself,
217       37|          studies, will suffice. A man’s nature, runs either to
218       38|           desperate conspiracy, a man should not rest upon the
219       38|        upon the fierceness of any man’s nature, or his resolute
220       38| everywhere visible; insomuch as a man would wonder, to hear men
221       38|           principal magistrate of man’s life, let men by all means
222       39|           chiefly, the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own
223       39|         is, that the folly of one man, is the fortune of another.
224       39|        fortune of another. For no man prospers so suddenly, as
225       39|           certain deliveries of a man’s self, which have no name.
226       39|       stonds nor restiveness in a man’s nature; but that the wheels
227       39|          ingenium. Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively,
228       39|           some of them, such as a man would little think. When
229       39|           can they be. For when a man placeth his thoughts without
230       39|           fortune maketh the able man. Fortune is to be honored
231       39|      breedeth; the first within a man’s self, the latter in others
232       39|     besides, it is greatness in a man, to be the care of the higher
233       39|         no doubt it is much, in a man’s self.~ ~
234       40|          remember a cruel moneyed man in the country, that would
235       40|           common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
236       40|      current rate of five; for no man will send his moneys far
237       41|                OF YOUTH AND AGE~A man that is young in years,
238       41|         And certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the
239       42|  strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles,
240       42|        music), and not by rule. A man shall see faces, that if
241       43|          But because there is, in man, an election touching the
242       44|          everything dear; where a man hath a great living laid
243       44|         and think of them, that a man may take as many as he can;
244       45|     refreshment to the spirits of man; without which, buildings
245       45|           gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see, that when
246       46|    mediation of a third than by a man’s self. Letters are good,
247       46|          Letters are good, when a man would draw an answer by
248       46|           when it may serve for a man’s justification afterwards
249       46|         in person is good, when a man’s face breedeth regard,
250       46|          in tender cases, where a man’s eye, upon the countenance
251       46|            and generally, where a man will reserve to himself
252       46|         where they would be. If a man deal with another upon conditions,
253       46|       performance is all; which a man cannot reasonably demand,
254       46|         must go before; or else a man can persuade the other party,
255       46|           be counted the honester man. All practice is to discover,
256       46|    pretext. If you would work any man, you must either know his
257       46|     negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and
258       47|         to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer,
259       47|          they export honor from a man, and make him a return in
260       47|           to make too much of any man at the first; because one
261       47|          censure or speak in of a man immediately, will talk more
262       48|     petition. If affection lead a man to favor the wrong side
263       48|           it. If affection lead a man to favor the less worthy
264       48|        deserver. In suits which a man doth not well understand,
265       48|           like to cross it. Let a man, in the choice of his mean,
266       48|          to the first grant; if a man show himself neither dejected
267       48|           is a good rule, where a man hath strength of favor:
268       48|           favor: but otherwise, a man were better rise in his
269       49|     things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man;
270       49|           man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
271       49|         man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man
272       49|          man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need
273       49|       head; and the like. So if a man’s wit be wandering, let
274       50|         so moderately, as he be a man of the one faction, which
275       50|         and cashiered; for many a man’s strength is in opposition;
276       50|           the winning of some one man casteth them, and he getteth
277       50|            but of a trueness to a man’s self, with end to make
278       51|        set without foil. But if a man mark it well, it is, in
279       51|   Therefore it doth much add to a man’s reputation, and is (as
280       51|      despise them; for so shall a man observe them in others;
281       51|   syllable is measured; how can a man comprehend great matters,
282       51|          is of singular use, if a man can hit upon it. Amongst
283       51|        can hit upon it. Amongst a man’s peers, a man shall be
284       51|          Amongst a man’s peers, a man shall be sure of familiarity;
285       51|          to keep state. Amongst a man’s inferiors one shall be
286       51|        with demonstration, that a man doth it upon regard, and
287       51|            shall not reap. A wise man will make more opportunities,
288       52|          points of praise, that a man may justly hold it a suspect.
289       52| attributes, which may serve every man; if he be a cunning flatterer,
290       52|         archflatterer, which is a man’s self; and wherein a man
291       52|         man’s self; and wherein a man thinketh best of himself,
292       52|         flatterer, look wherein a man is conscious to himself,
293       52|            Too much magnifying of man or matter, doth irritate
294       52|       envy and scorn. To praise a man’s self, cannot be decent,
295       52|       rare cases; but to praise a man’s office or profession,
296       53|            of cross lies; as if a man, that negotiates between
297       53|   sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own
298       53|        that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit
299       53|           helpeth to perpetuate a man’s memory; and virtue was
300       53|        others, in that, wherein a man’s self hath any perfection.
301       54|         is but the revealing of a man’s virtue and worth, without
302       54|      undervalued in opinion. If a man perform that, which hath
303       54|           is but a follower. If a man so temper his actions, as
304       54|       music will be the fuller. A man is an ill husband of his
305       54|      facets. And therefore, let a man contend to excel any competitors
306       54|       extinguished by declaring a man’s self in his ends, rather
307       54|        fame; and by attributing a man’s successes, rather to divine
308       55|     portion of people. And let no man weakly conceive, that just
309       56|         of anger, how it troubles man’s life. And the best time
310       56|           thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself
311       56|          sensible of hurt; for no man is angry, that feels not
312       56|         opinion of the touch of a man’s reputation, doth multiply
313       56|     Wherein the remedy is, that a man should have, as Consalvo
314       56|           win time; and to make a man’s self believe, that the
315       56|          though it take hold of a man, there be two things, whereof
316       56|        and again, that in anger a man reveal no secrets; for that,
317       56|         when first to relate to a man an angry business; for the