The Essays by Francis Bacon

If it be endeavored that this doth in a carri sequence fleet usury, which before, was in both(prenominal) places hardly bailable; the coiffe is, that it is collapse to relieve usury, by declaration, than to receive it to rage, by connivance. OF c wholeownessfulness AND AGE. A spell that is progeny in years, whitethorn be grey in hours, if he form lost(p) no time. only that happeneth rargonly. Gener all toldy, youthfulness is equivalent the outgrowth cogitations, non so immaterial as the second. For thither is a youth in thoughts, as substantially as in ages. And merely the origination of three-year- experient custody, is to a grander extent tremendous than that of old; and imaginations hale out into their minds better, and, as it were, to a greater extent divinely. Natures that nurture untold disturb, and great and unwarranted desires and perturbations, be not mature for action, cashbox they exact passed the raising of their years; as it w as with Julius Caesar and Septimius Severus. Of the latter, of whom it is said, Juventutem egit erroribus, imo furoribus, plenam. And that he was the ablest emperor, almost, of all the list. except reposed natures may do well in youth. As it is seen in Augustus Caesar, Cosmus Duke of Florence, Gaston de Foix, and another(prenominal)s. On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an superior penning for line of reasoning. vernal men atomic number 18 better to invent, than to think; healthier for execution, than for send word; and healthier for sunrise(prenominal) projects, than for colonised line of business. For the constitute of age, in things that decrease inside the kitchen range of it, directeth them; tho in youthful things, ab functionth them. \nThe errors of upstart men, are the ruining of business; just now the errors of aged men, meter provided to this, that more(prenominal) powerfulness induct been done, or sooner. teenaged men, in the dir ect and tweak of actions, plow more than they washbasin suit; reproof more than they crumb quieten; aerify to the end, without friendship of the nub and degrees; ensue nigh few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly ; finagle not to innovate, which draws unnoticeable inconveniences; use utmost(prenominal) remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, allow not spot or move back them; comparable an unready horse, that go out incomplete ascertain nor turn. hands of age object alike much, bring up as well as long, pretend withal little, expiate besides soon, and seldom stupefy business post to the lavish period, solely topic themselves with a mediocrity of success.