Francis Bacon: For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.

For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to — Francis Bacon

For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.

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I bequeath my soul to God (…). My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and m — Francis Bacon
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Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be no — Francis Bacon
Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. — Francis Bacon
silence is the language of god — Rumi
Before the phantom of False morning died, Methought a Voice within the Tavern cr — Omar Khayyám
O'er all the hilltops Is quiet now, In all the treetops Hearest thou Hardly a br — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...from politics, it was an easy step to silence. — Jane Austen
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic — James Joyce
إِذَا أَنْتَ أَكْرَمْتَ الْكَرِيمَ مَلَكْتَهُ وَإِنْ أَنْتَ أَكْرَمْتَ اللَّئِيم — Al-Mutanabbi
Impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. — William Wordsworth
The end will show the whole truth . — William the Silent