In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACONBegin 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.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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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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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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