“I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“For prison life with its endless privations and restrictions makes one rebellious. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men . . . The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“In everything on this earth that is worth doing, there is a stage when no one would do it, except for necessity or honor.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Every one has his superstitions. One of mine is that in positions of great responsibility every one should do his duty to the best of his ability where assigned by competent authority, without application or the use of influence to change his...”

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

“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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