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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Francis Bacon
Writing, Dust, Water
'The World' (1629)

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Francis Bacon
Writing, Sparks, Faces
Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Francis Bacon
Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing
The Advancement of Learning bk. 2, ch. 2, sec. 9 (1605)

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

Francis Bacon
Writing, Men, Use
Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.536

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Francis Bacon
Reading, Writing, Men

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