But now I see I was not plucked for naught, And after in life's vase Of glass set while I might survive, But by a kind hand brought Alive To a strange place.
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken
Benjamin Franklin
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Victor Hugo
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Friedrich von Schiller
I am better than my reputation.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you. You could take your treasure with you when you traveled too, and in the mountains where we lived in Switzerland and Italy, until we found Schruns in the high valley in the Vorarlberg in Austria, there were always the books, so that you lived in the new world you had found, the snow and the forests and the glaciers and their winter problems and your high shelter in the Hotel Taube in the village in the day time, and at night you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you.
Ernest Hemingway
To save all we must risk all.
It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Great souls endure in silence.
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
Speech is always bolder than action.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
John Green
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
Even the weak become strong when they are united.
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
The will of man is his happiness.
Remember, that time is money.
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
He who considers too much will perform little.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said.She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body.Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.
Jodi Picoult
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.
Orson Scott Card
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
Aldous Huxley
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis
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