“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it... and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“Happiness . . . must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not...”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“in order to ascertain the real opinions of such, I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than of what they said”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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