In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACONThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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