“Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.”

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

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“I had as well be killed running as die standing.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose...”

― Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

“When man was being made, the Creator was a schoolmaster—His bag full of commandments and principles; but when He came to woman, He resigned His headmastership and turned artist, with only His brush and paint-box.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“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

“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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