“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“It's in vain . . . to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the President’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“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

“We believe there is a common language that all technical civilizations, no matter how different, must have. That common language is science and mathematics.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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