“Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee? whom follow?”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“Most of these parties censure the conduct of the government, but they all hold that the government ought perpetually to act and interfere in everything that is done.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Every star may be a sun to someone.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them—and, that way she missed love.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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