Thursday, August 13, 2020

Quote of the Day: 13 August 2020

“If you’ve never seen ugly, you cannot know what is beautiful. If you’ve never heard dissonance and cacophony, you cannot know when something is harmonious.” -Robert Burton
 “If you’ve never seen ugly, you cannot know what is beautiful. If you’ve never heard dissonance and cacophony, you cannot know when something is harmonious.” -Robert Burton

[Some things we can only know by contrast with its opposite. It is fortunate that we can learn from the example of others, or we would have to experience every sorrow to know joy.]

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