“Nothing is more deceitful . . . than the appearance of humility.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“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

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through — usually with relief that the choice was made.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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