“The problem for us was to move forward to a decisive victory, or our cause was lost.”

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

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“Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The least forced and most natural motions of the soul are the most beautiful; the best employments, those that are least strained.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like—like yours, for example.”

― Jack London, Martin Eden

“The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snowAs seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”

― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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