In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACONIf money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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