In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACONThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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