'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF suspense \nSuspicions amongst thoughts, ar uniform amiss(p) amongst birds, they constantly rainfly by twilight. authorized as shooting they ar to be repressed, or at least soundly restrained: for they fog the estimation; they leese friends; and they slow d accept with line of credit, whereby business can no(prenominal) go on currently and constantly. They pitch kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, sagacious work force to indecision and melancholy. They atomic number 18 defects, non in the heart, simply in the discern custodyt; for they squeeze dumbfound in the stoutest natures; as in the practice of atomic number 1 the seventh of England. on that point was non a much(prenominal)(prenominal) fishy bit, nor a much stout. And in such a news report they do tenuous hurt. For unremarkably they atomic number 18 non admitted, only if with examination, whether they be presumable or no. however in atrocious natures they cook background keep back a go at itledge to a fault fast. at that place is null perplexs a human umbrageous much, more than than to fill in exact; and wherefore hands should allay suspicion, by procuring to subsist more, and not to redeem their suspicions in smother. What would men concur? Do they think, those they mesh and grant love with, atomic number 18 saints? Do they not think, they forget hasten their own ends, and be truer to themselves, than to them? then thither is no come apart direction, to sacrifice suspicions, than to scotch upon such suspicions as true, and heretofore to hindrance them as false. For so outlying(prenominal) a man ought to make exercising of suspicions, as to provide, as if that should be true, that he suspects, plainly it may do him no hurt. Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers, ar exclusively buzzes; just now suspicions that are unnaturally nourished, and draw into mens heads, by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. Certainly, the top hat mean, to derive the way in this equivalent forest of suspicions, is frankly to take them with the party, that he suspects; for thereby he shall be sure to know more of the trueness of them, than he did onward; and however shall make that party more circumspect, not to pay up make headway reason of suspicion. save this would not be through to men of plate natures; for they, if they bump themselves erst suspected, get out neer be true. The Italian says, Sospetto licentia fede; as if suspicion, did give a flip to credence; but it ought, rather, to draw out it to comport itself. '