The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being as apt for it , as any foreing parts.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
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He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
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The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
What is truth? Said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
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A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.
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Suspicions amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at least well guarded: for they cloud the mind; they leese friends; and they check with business, whereby business cannot go on currently and constantly. They dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and melancholy. They are defects, not in the heart, but in the brain; for they take place in the stoutest natures.
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Virtue is like precious odors — most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.
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