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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1593 AD · renaissance
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- Francis Bacon
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1593 AD · renaissance
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Bacon. · page_290
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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