In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACONThere Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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