“She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“I doubt whether the people of this country would suffer an execution for heresy, or a three years imprisonment for not comprehending the mysteries of the Trinity.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.”

― Charles Dickens,

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap,...”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“A thousand moral paintings I can show that shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's more pregnantly than words.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“The human heart . . . can contain only a certain quantity of despair. When the sponge is saturated, the sea may pass over it without causing a single drop more to enter it.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“I treat my poor heart like a sick child, and gratify its every fancy.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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