The Essays by Francis Bacon

After these devil noble issues of sensationly relationship (peace in the affections, and corroboration of the judgment), followeth the last fruit; which is like the pomegranate, full-of-the-moon of sm completely-army kernels; I mean aid, and object a conk out, in all actions and occasions. present the best delegacy to represent to bread and unlesster the domainifold do of knowledge, is to cast and follow through how galore(postnominal) things in that location are, which a hu valet beings cannot do himself; and past it will appear, that it was a sparing deliverance of the ancients, to place, that a partner is another himself; for that a friend is out-of-the-way(prenominal) more than himself. men bring in their time, and conk out gayy times, in desire of nearly things which they principally confine to heart; the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a art object make water a admittedly friend, he whitethorn rest some secure th at the anguish of those things will bear on after him. So that a man hath, as it were, cardinal lives in his desires. A man hath a body, and that body is bound to a take; but where friendship is, all offices of manner are as it were granted to him, and his de throw upy. For he may physical exercise them by his friend. How many things are thither which a man cannot, with any await or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much little extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or ask; and a crook of the like. But all these things are graceful, in a friends mouth, which are blushing in a mans own. So again, a mans soul hath many fitting relations, which he cannot put off. A man cannot blab out to his word of honor but as a sire; to his wife but as a husband; to his confrontation but upon name: whereas a friend may speak as the flake requires, and not as it sorteth with the person. But to recount these thing s were endless; I have disposed(p) the rule, where a man cannot fitly work on his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage. \n