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I am a part of all that I have met.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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For Rememberance.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should ( Read more... ) -
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Never say that you have no time. On the whole it is those who are busiest who can make time for yet more, and those who have more leisure time who refuse to do something when asked. What we lack is not time, but heart ( Read more... ) -
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"My dear Watson," said he, "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
I cannot live without my soul!
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death ( Read more... ) -
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...
Then must you strive to be worthy of her love. Be brave and pure, fearless to the strong and humble to the weak; and so, whether this love prosper or no, you will have fitted yourself to be honored by a maiden's love, which is, in sooth, the highest guerdon which a true knight can hope for.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You anticipate what I would say, ( Read more... ) -
Anthony Trollope quotes
No virtue could charm him, no vice shock him. He had about him a natural good manner, which seemed to qualify him for the highest circles, and yet he was never out of place in the lowest.
"One evening call," said he, "is worth ten in the morning. It's all formality in the morning; real social talk never begins till after dinner."
You might pass ( Read more... ) -
Here we go.
We gather strength from sadness and from pain. Each time we die we learn to live again.
Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,
Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.
-A Game of Thrones, Song of Ice and Fire
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: because it was he, because ( Read more... ) -
A Tale of Two Cities
" . . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never ( Read more... )