John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Francis Bacon. (1561–1626) (continued) |
| 1977 |
| Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men’s labours and peregrinations. |
| Advancement of Learning. Book ii. (1605). |
| 1978 |
| Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. 1 |
| Advancement of Learning. Book ii. (1605). |
| 1979 |
| States as great engines move slowly. |
| Advancement of Learning. Book ii. (1605). |
| 1980 |
| The world ’s a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span. 2 |
| The World. |
| 1981 |
| Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust. |
| The World. |
| 1982 |
| What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die? 3 |
| The World. |
| 1983 |
| For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. |
| From his Will. |
| 1984 |
| My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. 4 |
| Apothegms. No. 17. |
| Note 1. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.—John Wesley (quoted): Journal, Feb. 12, 1772. According to Dr. A. S. Bettelheim, rabbi, this is found in the Hebrew fathers. He cites Phinehas ben Yair, as follows: “The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness,”—literally, next to godliness. [back] |
| Note 2. Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.—Sir Thomas Browne: Pastoral ii. Our life is but a span.—New England Primer. [back] |
| Note 3. This line frequently occurs in almost exactly the same shape among the minor poems of the time: “Not to be born, or, being born, to die.”—William Drummond: Poems, p. 44. Bishop King: Poems, etc. (1657), p. 145. [back] |
| Note 4. Tall men are like houses of four stories, wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished.—Howell (quoted): Letter i. book i. sect. ii. (1621.) Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Thomas Fuller: Andronicus, sect. vi. par. 18, 1. Such as take lodgings in a head That ’s to be let unfurnished. Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 161. [back] |