In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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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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