“There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“The love of battle is the food upon which we live—the dust of the 'melee' is the breath of our nostrils! We live not—we wish not to live—longer than while we are victorious and renowned—Such, maiden, are the laws of chivalry to which we...”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your dream regardless of what anyone else says or thinks. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture—and even you can’t see it all.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.”

― Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“There is no slave but the creature that wills against its creator.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“The sun and stars that float in the open air,. . . surely the drift of them is something grand,I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness”

― Walt Whitman, A Song for Occupations

“There is a romance about all who are abroad in the black hours, and with something of a thrill we try to guess their business.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

“The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Freely we serve,Because we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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