“The first years of man must make provision for the last. He that never thinks, never can be wise.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“She couldn’t be on his wavelength all the time. That’s all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“All things are ready, if our minds be so.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“And in the development of these Nature chose for a tool not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Sectarian feeling and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Kindness

“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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