“But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“I find my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star, whose influence if now I court not, but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other...”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“In the past... those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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