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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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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