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" A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much... "
The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 280
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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The Essays, Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...receipt openeth the heart but a true friend,0 to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, 15 suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the...great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of 20 friendship whereof we speak; so great as they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral: And, The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1905 - 200 pages
...much otherwise in the mind : you may take sarza to open the liver ; steel to open the spleen ; flower of sulphur for the lungs ; castoreum for the brain...hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth 6* upon the heart, to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. It is a strange thing to...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing papers of ..., Volume 79

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Biology - 1907 - 732 pages
...and character secured the devoted attachment of a wider circle. There are many to whom he was that " true friend to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears,...and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it," many to whom the memory of his intimate friendship will remain as one of the abiding joys of life....
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Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship

Edward Carpenter - Classical poetry - 1906 - 316 pages
...much otherwise in the mind : you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain;...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. . . . "Certainly if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto,...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing papers of ..., Volume 79

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Biology - 1907 - 706 pages
...and character secured the devoted attachment of a wider circle. There are many to whom he was that " true friend to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears,...and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it," many to whom the memory of his intimate friendship will remain as one of the abiding joys of life....
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Essays, Civil and Moral and the New Atlantis

Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza3 to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain;...rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit ot friendship whereof we speak: so great, as they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own...
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The Wealth of Friendship

Friendship - 1909 - 236 pages
...much otherwise in the mind. You may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain;...lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shift or confession. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved, is the greatest...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 pages
...much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain;...lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil 2 shrift or confession. It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do...
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The Smith College Monthly, Volume 16

1910 - 666 pages
...everything with its warm glow of contentment and happiness. As Bacon says in his essay on Friendship, " No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys...
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Francis Bacon: A Sketch of His Life, Works, and Literary Friends, Chiefly ...

George Walter Steeves - Philosophers - 1910 - 272 pages
...after him." ; He had the happy satisfaction of possessing such friendships as enabled him to say that "no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession " ; and the effect of such fellowship is beautifully rendered when he writes : " For there is no man...
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