“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

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“Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The world around me is dissolving, leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am thinking that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power over her which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that's not innocent; nor can we be passive when freedom is under siege.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

“The future is there . . . looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”

― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“for its vain splendour we go into the fire, thus blind ignorance does mislead us.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“The last proceeding of reason is to recognise that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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