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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge <strong>of</strong> that you are thought to know, you shall be<br />

thought, another time, to know that you know not.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Discourse’<br />

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion. ‘Stay a<br />

little, that we may make an end the sooner.’<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Dispatch’<br />

To choose time is to save time.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Dispatch’<br />

Riches are for spending.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Expense’<br />

A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will continue.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Expense’<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is little friendship in the world, and least <strong>of</strong> all between equals.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Followers and Friends’<br />

Chiefly the mould <strong>of</strong> a man’s fortune is in his own hands.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Fortune’<br />

If a man look sharply, and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is<br />

not invisible.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Fortune’<br />

It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in a few<br />

words, than in that speech: ‘Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god.’<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Friendship’.<br />

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery <strong>of</strong> pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal,<br />

where there is no love.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Friendship’<br />

It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Friendship’<br />

As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure <strong>of</strong> the disease you complain<br />

<strong>of</strong> but is unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure<br />

but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Friendship’<br />

God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest <strong>of</strong> human pleasures.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Gardens’<br />

<strong>The</strong> inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature <strong>of</strong> man: insomuch, that if it issue<br />

not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Goodness, and Goodness <strong>of</strong> Nature’<br />

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen <strong>of</strong> the world.<br />

‘Essays’ (1625) ‘Of Goodness, and Goodness <strong>of</strong> Nature’<br />

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants <strong>of</strong> the sovereign or state, servants <strong>of</strong> fame, and<br />

servants <strong>of</strong> business.

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