“This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“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

“Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm pain for a while or anguish, and excite fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“There were churches in that part of Ohio where treason was preached regularly, and where, to secure membership, hostility to the government, to the war and to the liberation of the slaves, was far more essential than a belief in the authenticity...”

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

“The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God’s name would you want to make things worse by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“These infinities represent an unending regress that goes on not just very far, but forever.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

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