“I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.”

― Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

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

“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not. Remember that all is opinion.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“All things are ready, if our minds be so.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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