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Essay typing practice on 12 complete essays of 311 to 514 words. Six were written for this page in the shape of a school essay; six are by Francis Bacon.
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A Bench on Every Street (311 words)Every street should have a bench. It is a small thing to ask for, and it costs little, yet it changes how a street is used and who can use it. Think first of the people who cannot walk far without a rest. An older neighbour may manage the trip to the shop if there is a seat halfway, and give it up if there is not. A parent with a tired child needs somewhere to stop. So does anyone carrying heavy bags. For all of them, a bench turns one long walk into two short ones. A bench also gives people a reason to stay outside. Streets are friendlier when someone is sitting on them. A person on a bench sees who comes and goes, nods to the regulars, and notices when something is wrong. Shops do better when there are people about, and people linger where they can sit. Even a bus stop is kinder with a seat, and a seat that is there all day serves more than those waiting for a bus. Some will say that benches attract litter and noise. They can, but the answer is a bin and a lamp, not an empty pavement. We do not close a park because someone once dropped a wrapper in it. Others will say there is no money. Yet a bench is among the plainest things a town can build, and few things it builds are used so often. A street is not only a way to get from one place to another. It is where neighbours meet by chance, where children learn the names of dogs, and where the day is watched as it goes by. All of that needs somewhere to sit. It need not be handsome. Three planks and a back will do. Give every street a bench, and the street will give something back.
Of Delays (321 words) Bacon: Essays 1625Fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Again, it is sometimes like Sibylla's offer; which at first, offereth the commodity at full, then consumeth part and part, and still holdeth up the price. For occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken; or at least turneth the handle of the bottle, first to be received, and after the belly, which is hard to clasp. There is surely no greater wisdom, than well to time the beginnings, and onsets, of things. Dangers are no more light, if they once seem light; and more dangers have deceived men, than forced them. Nay, it were better, to meet some dangers half way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long, it is odds he will fall asleep. On the other side, to be deceived with too long shadows (as some have been, when the moon was low, and shone on their enemies' back), and so to shoot off before the time; or to teach dangers to come on, by over early buckling towards them; is another extreme. The ripeness, or unripeness, of the occasion (as we said) must ever be well weighed; and generally it is good, to commit the beginnings of all great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes, and the ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands; first to watch, and then to speed. For the helmet of Pluto, which maketh the politic man go invisible, is secrecy in the counsel, and celerity in the execution. For when things are once come to the execution, there is no secrecy, comparable to celerity; like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift, as it outruns the eye.
Write It Down (335 words)The surest way to remember something is to stop trusting your memory and write it down. This sounds like an admission of weakness. It is the opposite. People who keep notes are not forgetful; they have simply decided to save their attention for better work. Consider how a day really goes. You promise to call someone back. You think of a gift for a friend while you are cooking. You notice that the car makes a new noise. Each thought feels too clear to lose, and each is gone by evening unless it was caught on paper. A note takes ten seconds. Trying to recall a lost idea can take the rest of the week, and often fails. Writing things down also makes them better. A plan held in the head feels complete because nobody can see the gaps. Put the same plan in a list and the gaps appear at once: this step depends on that one, this cost was never counted, this date is a holiday. The page is a patient critic. It asks no awkward questions, yet somehow all the awkward questions get answered. There is a calmer mind in it too. A list of tasks is a weight set down. Nothing on it needs to be carried around any longer, turned over at night, or repeated under the breath on the way to work. The tasks have not gone away, but they are waiting in one known place and not circling. It does not matter much what you write on. A notebook in the pocket, a card by the phone and a file on a screen all work, as long as there is only one of them and you look at it every day. The habit matters more than the tool. Many people buy a fine diary in January and trust their memory again by March. So write it down: the errand, the idea, the name of the person you have just met. Your memory will thank you for the rest.
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Of Suspicion (387 words) Bacon: Essays 1625Suspicions amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at least well guarded: for they cloud the mind; they leese friends; and they check with business, whereby business cannot go on currently and constantly. They dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and melancholy. They are defects, not in the heart, but in the brain; for they take place in the stoutest natures; as in the example of Henry the Seventh of England. There was not a more suspicious man, nor a more stout. And in such a composition they do small hurt. For commonly they are not admitted, but with examination, whether they be likely or no. But in fearful natures they gain ground too fast. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion, by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. What would men have? Do they think, those they employ and deal with, are saints? Do they not think, they will have their own ends, and be truer to themselves, than to them? Therefore there is no better way, to moderate suspicions, than to account upon such suspicions as true, and yet to bridle them as false. For so far a man ought to make use of suspicions, as to provide, as if that should be true, that he suspects, yet it may do him no hurt. Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished, and put into men's heads, by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. Certainly, the best mean, to clear the way in this same wood of suspicions, is frankly to communicate them with the party, that he suspects; for thereby he shall be sure to know more of the truth of them, than he did before; and withal shall make that party more circumspect, not to give further cause of suspicion. But this would not be done to men of base natures; for they, if they find themselves once suspected, will never be true. The Italian says, Sospetto licentia fede; as if suspicion, did give a passport to faith; but it ought, rather, to kindle it to discharge itself.
Why Learn to Cook (390 words)Anyone can get through life without learning to cook. Shops sell meals that need only heating, and a phone will bring dinner to the door. Even so, learning to cook is worth the trouble, and the reasons go well beyond the food. The first reason is plain: money. A meal made at home from simple things costs far less than the same meal bought ready. A bag of rice, a few onions, some eggs and a can of tomatoes will feed a household for days. Over a year the difference is not small change. It is a holiday, or a debt paid off. The second reason is choice. The person who cooks decides what goes into the pot: how much salt, how much butter, whether the vegetables are fresh. The person who only buys must take what is offered. Cooking does not make anyone eat well, but it makes a good dinner possible on an ordinary budget. The third reason is less obvious. Cooking teaches patience and attention in a way few other daily tasks do. Onions will not brown faster because you are in a hurry. Bread rises when it is ready. A sauce left alone for one phone call will stick to the pan. You learn to wait, to watch, and to taste as you go, and these habits leak into the rest of life. Then there is the pleasure of feeding other people. A meal cooked for friends says something that a meal ordered for them cannot. Nobody at the table is counting the cost or checking the time. They are simply glad to be asked. It need not be clever. A pot of soup and a loaf of bread, put on the table with some care, will be remembered longer than most restaurant dinners. It is true that cooking takes time, and that the first attempts are often poor. Rice burns. Cakes sink. But the skill grows quickly, because you practise it every day and eat the results. Before long the beginner has ten dishes that work, and ten dishes are enough for a lifetime of ordinary evenings. Nobody needs to become a chef. It is enough to be able to walk into a kitchen, look at what is there, and make a decent meal of it. That small skill pays for itself at every meal.
Of Innovations (399 words) Bacon: Essays 1625As the births of living creatures, at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. Yet notwithstanding, as those that first bring honor into their family, are commonly more worthy than most that succeed, so the first precedent (if it be good) is seldom attained by imitation. For ill, to man's nature, as it stands perverted, hath a natural motion, strongest in continuance; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity. Besides, they are like strangers; more admired, and less favored. All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom, is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, by degrees scarce to be perceived. For otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for; and ever it mends some, and pairs others; and he that is holpen, takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time; and he that is hurt, for a wrong, and imputeth it to the author. It is good also, not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware, that it be the reformation, that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect; and, as the Scripture saith, that we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so to walk in it.
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The Long Way Home (452 words)There are two ways home from almost anywhere: the quick way and the long way. Most of us take the quick way without thinking. I want to argue for the long way, at least some of the time, because the quick way gets us home and the long way gives us something to bring there. The quick way is a habit. We learn it once and then stop seeing it. The same corners, the same lights, the same row of parked cars pass by while the mind is somewhere else, usually on the worries of the day. Ask someone what they saw on the way home and the honest answer is often nothing at all. The long way breaks the habit. A street you do not know asks to be looked at. There is a bakery you had not heard of, a garden with a plum tree hanging over the wall, a house being painted a brave shade of yellow. None of this is important, and that is the point. For twenty minutes the mind is given small, pleasant things to notice and is allowed to put down the large, unpleasant ones. The long way is also how we learn where we live. People can spend years in a town and know only the lines between home, work and the shops. Everything off those lines is a blank. Take a different turning once a week and the blanks fill in. You find the short cut to the station, the quiet square, the shop that mends shoes. The town becomes a place and not just a route. Children know this already. A child sent on an errand will come back by way of the canal, the building site and the wall that is good for walking along. We call it wasting time. The child would call it finding things out, and the child is nearer the truth. Of course there are days for the quick way. When it is raining hard, when someone is waiting, when the bags are heavy, nobody should feel guilty about going straight home. The long way is not a rule. It is a choice to keep open. What it costs is a little time, and time is exactly what we say we lack. Yet the minutes saved by the quick way are rarely spent on anything we remember. They vanish into the evening. The minutes spent on the long way are the ones we talk about at dinner: you will never guess what I saw. So now and then, when the weather is kind and nobody is waiting, turn left where you always turn right. Home will still be there. You will simply arrive with more to say.
Of Revenge (454 words) Bacon: Essays 1625Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man, to pass by an offence. That which is past is gone, and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do, with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves, that labor in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong, for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the like. Therefore why should I be angry with a man, for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other. The most tolerable sort of revenge, is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy; but then let a man take heed, the revenge be such as there is no law to punish; else a man's enemy is still before hand, and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous, the party should know, whence it cometh. This is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be, not so much in doing the hurt, as in making the party repent. But base and crafty cowards, are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends. But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of Pertinax; for the death of Henry the Third of France; and many more. But in private revenges, it is not so. Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.
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What a Library Is For (501 words)Ask people what a public library is for and most will say books. That answer is true, and it is far too small. A library lends books, but what it really offers is rarer: a warm, quiet room where anyone may sit for as long as they like without being asked to buy anything. Count the places in a town where that is allowed. A cafe wants you to order. A shop wants you to spend. Even a park bench is no use in the rain. The library asks for nothing. A student with no desk at home can work there. A person between jobs can write letters there. A child can do homework there while a parent finishes a shift. An old man can read the paper there every morning and be greeted by name. No other building treats all of them alike. Then there are the books themselves, and here the library does something no shop can do. A shop sells what is new and what is popular. A library keeps what is good. It will hand you a novel that went out of print thirty years ago, a guide to mending bicycles, or the history of your own street, and it will not ask whether enough people want it to make a profit. It lets a reader take a chance on a book, because a wrong guess costs nothing. A library is also a place to ask questions. The person at the desk has spent years learning how to find things out, and will help a child with a school project or an adult with a form to fill in. An answer may be only a search away, but so are a great many wrong answers, and it is useful to have someone who knows how to check. Nobody at that desk is selling anything, which is rarer than it sounds. Some argue that libraries belong to the past. Everything is on a screen now, they say, so the shelves can go. But the screen has to be paid for, and so does the connection, and not everyone has both. For them the library computer is the only door to a job application or a message from family. Take it away and they are shut out of things the rest of us do without a thought. It is easy to measure what a library costs. The bill arrives every year. It is much harder to measure what it gives, because the gifts are scattered and slow: a child who became a reader, a stranger who found company, a worker who learned a trade from a borrowed book. Nobody sends a town a bill for the libraries it has closed, yet the cost is real. A town that keeps its library is saying something about itself. It is saying that knowledge should not depend on money, and that there ought to be one door in every place that is open to all. That is what a library is for.
Of Studies (503 words) Bacon: Essays 1625Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a special receipt.
Of Negotiating (507 words) Bacon: Essays 1625It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man's self. Letters are good, when a man would draw an answer by letter back again; or when it may serve for a man's justification afterwards to produce his own letter; or where it may be danger to be interrupted, or heard by pieces. To deal in person is good, when a man's face breedeth regard, as commonly with inferiors; or in tender cases, where a man's eye, upon the countenance of him with whom he speaketh, may give him a direction how far to go; and generally, where a man will reserve to himself liberty, either to disavow or to expound. In choice of instruments, it is better to choose men of a plainer sort, that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success, than those that are cunning, to contrive, out of other men's business, somewhat to grace themselves, and will help the matter in report for satisfaction's sake. Use also such persons as affect the business, wherein they are employed; for that quickeneth much; and such, as are fit for the matter; as bold men for expostulation, fair-spoken men for persuasion, crafty men for inquiry and observation, froward, and absurd men, for business that doth not well bear out itself. Use also such as have been lucky, and prevailed before, in things wherein you have employed them; for that breeds confidence, and they will strive to maintain their prescription. It is better to sound a person, with whom one deals afar off, than to fall upon the point at first; except you mean to surprise him by some short question. It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be. If a man deal with another upon conditions, the start or first performance is all; which a man cannot reasonably demand, except either the nature of the thing be such, which must go before; or else a man can persuade the other party, that he shall still need him in some other thing; or else that he be counted the honester man. All practice is to discover, or to work. Men discover themselves in trust, in passion, at unawares, and of necessity, when they would have somewhat done, and cannot find an apt pretext. If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him. In dealing with cunning persons, we must ever consider their ends, to interpret their speeches; and it is good to say little to them, and that which they least look for. In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
Mend It First (514 words)When something breaks, the modern habit is to throw it away and buy another. A kettle stops working, a zip sticks, a chair leg comes loose, and out it goes. I think this habit is a mistake. Before we replace a thing we should at least try to mend it, and I will give three reasons: it saves money, it wastes less, and it teaches us how our own things work. Start with money. A new zip costs less than a new coat. A tube of glue costs less than a new chair. Many repairs need only a cheap part and half an hour, and the thing that has been mended often lasts for years. People who mend as a habit are not mean. They have simply noticed that buying the same object twice is a poor use of a wage. The second reason is waste. Everything we throw away has to go somewhere, and everything we buy has to be made from something. A broken toaster in the bin is metal, plastic and wire that somebody dug up, shaped and shipped. If one loose screw was all that was wrong with it, the loss is absurd. The same is true of a coat with a torn pocket or a lamp with a worn switch. Mending is the plainest way there is to use less, because it asks us to give up nothing. We keep the toaster and the toast. The third reason matters most to me. A person who mends things comes to understand them. Take the back off a clock and you see why it ticks. Sew on a button and you learn how a shirt is put together. After a few repairs the objects in a house stop being mysteries that work until they do not. They become things with parts, and parts can be fixed. That knowledge brings a quiet confidence that no purchase can. There are fair objections. Some things are made so that they cannot be opened, and some repairs cost more than the object is worth. Nobody should spend a weekend saving a kettle that can be replaced for the price of a sandwich. And a few jobs, those that involve gas or mains wiring, belong to trained people and nobody else. Mending first does not mean mending always. It means asking the question before reaching for the bin. Nor does it take rare skill. A needle, a screwdriver, a pot of glue and a little patience will deal with much of what goes wrong in a home. The first repair is slow and the tenth is quick. What cannot be done alone can often be done with help, from a neighbour who knows about bicycles or a shop that still repairs shoes. So the next time something breaks, wait a day before you replace it. The bin will still be there tomorrow. Look at it. Find out what has failed. You may fix it, and even if you do not, you will buy the next one knowing a little more about what you are paying for.
How this list was compiled: Six of the 12 essays were written for this page, in the shape of a school essay: an opening that states the case, body paragraphs, a close. They are opinion on plain subjects and quote no figures. The other six are complete essays by Francis Bacon, cut from the Project Gutenberg text of The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, ebook 575, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/575 (read 2026-10-09). The ebook names no printed edition; its title and its 58 essays, with the fragment Of Fame, are those of the edition of 1625, the last in Bacon's lifetime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Francis_Bacon), read 2026-10-09, which also gives the edition each essay first appeared in: Of Studies and Of Negotiating in 1597, the other four in 1625). Each Bacon essay here runs from the first word under its heading to the last word before the next heading, with nothing left out; the text was confirmed to be that exact run. One change was made: the ebook sets the opening word or words of an essay in capitals (STUDIES serve), and they are given here with an ordinary capital. Spelling and punctuation are the ebook's, including honor, labor, proyning, stond and leese; its own glossary gives proyne as prune, stond as stop or stand, and leese as lose. The six were chosen because each fits the tool's limit of 3,000 characters whole and has little or no Latin. Words, keystrokes, sentences and semicolons were counted. A keystroke is one character, spaces included, and typing times are arithmetic from keystrokes divided by 5, the usual words-per-minute convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute. Licence: Francis Bacon's essays: public domain in the USA (Project Gutenberg ebook 575, marked Public domain in the USA on its ebook page, checked 2026-10-09). The six essays written for this page, the names and the counts are own work.