“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature!”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

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“It is very easy to become so absorbed in our own pursuits, our own circle, our own type of work, that we forget how small a part this is of the total of human activity and how many things in the world are entirely unaffected by what we do.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where—in default of a better—those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end; each changing place with that which goes before, in sequent toil all forwards do contend.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“so many unscrupulous people have got hold of the progressive cause of late and have so distorted in their own interests everything they touched, that the whole cause has been dragged in the mire.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt's friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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