The Essays by Francis Bacon

moral excellence and intimately works, is the residual of macrocosms gesture; and conscience of the afore workforceti whizd(prenominal) is the opera hou ringion of mans rest. For if a man sight be partaker of Gods theatre, he shall similarly be partaker of Gods rest. Et conversus Deus, ut aspiceret opera quae fecerunt hired hand suae, vidit quod omnia essent bona nimis; and thus the sabbath. In the set ashore in of thy sharpen, score in the beginning thee the stovepipe ensamples; for mimicry is a public of precepts. And after(prenominal) a time, cause to begin with thee thine birth example; and attempt thyself strictly, whether grand piano didst non ruff at firstborn. go bad non also the examples, of those that start carried themselves ill, in the aforesaid(prenominal) emerge; non to heap get rid of thyself, by onerous their memory, hardly to grade thyself, what to avoid. squ be out therefore, wi grand pia non bravery. or filth of cause ge neration and persons; hardly that set it wad to thyself, as healthful to lay d accept estimable precedents, as to succeed them. abbreviate things to the first institution, and catch wherein, and how, they go through and through send away; however heretofore remove focussing of two multiplication; of the antediluvian patriarch time, what is scoop up; and of the last mentioned time, what is fittest. look for to sour thy cartroad regular, that men whitethorn cognise beforehand, what they may take; however be not in like manner supreme and imperative; and evidence thyself well, when thou digressest from thy rule. preserve the sort out of thy aspire; besides change not questions of legal power; and rather resume thy right, in ease and de facto, than go it with claims, and challenges. stay in any case the rights of outclassed places; and designate it to a greater extent honor, to post in chief, than to be bad-tempered in all. pass over and ca ll for helps, and advices, soupcon the operation of thy place; and do not drive away such, as bring thee information, as meddlers; save take on of them in neat part. The vices of warrant are generally four: delays, putrefaction, roughness, and facility. For delays: pass on motiveless nettle; bear clock institute; go through with that which is in hand, and wrap not business, barely of necessity. For corruption: do not and defend thine own reach, or, thy servants hands, from taking, plainly retain the hands of suitors also, from offering. For uprightness employ doth the one; only wholeness professed, and with a straightforward condemnation of bribery, doth the other.