“I shall be called discontented. I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter under, which the darkest,...”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even had a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“It cannot be maintained that empirical science provides a complete explanation of life, the interplay of all creatures and the whole of reality.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“At the present time, an oppressed member of the community has therefore only one method of self-defence—he may appeal to the whole nation; and if the whole nation is deaf to his complaint, he may appeal to mankind: the only means he has of...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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