“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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“he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“We told each other that Nature was beautiful, even in her tears.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have—everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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