WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:34:04 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg schisms – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bacon, Francis -- “Of Vicissitude of Things,” Essays, No. 58 (1625) https://wist.info/bacon-francis/34256/ https://wist.info/bacon-francis/34256/#respond Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:15:28 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34256 Surely there is no better way to stop the rising of new sects and schisms than to reform abuses; to compound the smaller differences; to proceed mildly, and not with sanguinary persecutions; and rather to take off the principal authors by winning and advancing them, than to enrage them by violence and bitterness.


Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Vicissitude of Things,” Essays, No. 58 (1625)
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