“ Men have their time, and die many times, in desire of some things which they principally take to heart ”
Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon (1597). copy citation
Author | Francis Bacon |
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Source | The Essays of Francis Bacon |
Topic | desire heart |
Date | 1597 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm |
Context
“Here the best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship, is to cast and see how many things there are, which a man cannot do himself; and then it will appear, that it was a sparing speech of the ancients, to say, that a friend is another himself; for that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times, in desire of some things which they principally take to heart; the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath, as it were, two lives in his desires.”
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