“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!...”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,—cannot be altogether men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury...”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“it’s best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“The power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us is born without.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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