“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“This is why I am continuing my travels—not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“A man's character is his guardian divinity.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“That's preachin'. Doin' good to a fella that's down an' can't smack ya in the puss for it. ”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“And yet nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish co-operation of many individuals.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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