“fools rush in where angels fear to tread”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

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“To major things the surest road is on the minor pains bestowed, if you don't happen to be in a hurry.”

― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“It is my belief that action under this section should be suspended until the Congress can reconsider the entire question in the light of the experience that has been developed since its enactment.”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“This was the alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed and waiting like devout...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon

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