Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Quote by Francis Bacon Sr

Topics: Ability Quotes, Plants Quotes

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen...

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen...

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or...

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or...

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad...

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad...

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons...

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons...

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost...

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost...

This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man...

This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man...

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically...

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically...

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what...

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what...

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the...

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the...

God Almighty first planted a garden.

God Almighty first planted a garden.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to...

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to...

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

God can restore any marriage no matter how battered or broken. Stop talking to people...

God can restore any marriage no matter how battered or broken. Stop talking to people...

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.