“For even as it is better to enlighten than merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the fruits of one's contemplation than merely to contemplate.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“I think the knowledge came to him at last—only at the very last.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a nonconformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Life is one long process of getting tired.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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