“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through — usually with relief that the choice was made.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“I will beat thee into handsomeness.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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