“the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

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“she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame (that is: morally) at your past, which naturally has a share in everything that now meets you.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“It is more likely . . . mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets”

― Voltaire, Candide

“The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea of the effect.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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