“Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Nature in Men
Essays (1625)
“Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished. Force, maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse, maketh nature less importune; but custom only doth alter and subdue nature.”
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Nature in Men
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