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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Francis Bacon
Inspirational, Children, Mistake

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon
Death, Fear, Children
Essays "Of Death" (1625)

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Francis Bacon
Children, Parent, Wish

Boldness is a child of ignorance

Francis Bacon
Children, Ignorance, Boldness
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Francis Bacon
Inspirational, Children, Reality
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Parents and Children'

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Francis Bacon
Family, Children, Discipline
1625 Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Francis Bacon
Family, Marriage, Children
Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Francis Bacon
Children, Wife, Virtue
Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

Francis Bacon
Children, Anger, Men
Francis Bacon (1850). “Works”, p.306

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Francis Bacon
Death, Children, Science
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Francis Bacon
Children, Business, Ignorance
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Francis Bacon
Children, Memories, Men
Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.258

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Francis Bacon
Wise, Children, Mean
Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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