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    Seneca
    “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
    ― Seneca, Natural Questions
    tags: astronomy, diligence, discoveries, disinformation, knowledge, lies, memory, misinformation, propoganda, research, science, time, truth
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    Edward Gibbon
    “The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
    ― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    tags: corruption, magistrate, organized-religion, roman-empire, rome, useful, worship
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    Seneca
    “Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
    ― Seneca, Moral Essays, Volume I: De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia
    tags: wealth
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    Seneca
    “To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.”
    ― Seneca
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    William Shakespeare
    “My only love sprung from my only hate!
    Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
    Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
    That I must love a loathed enemy.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: romance, romeo-and-juliet
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    Stephen King
    “Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness, laughter, smiles
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    Jane Austen
    “Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: complaints, histrionics, hysterics, irony, mrs-bennett, suffering
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: past, yesterday
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: beast, hallucination, simon
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    William Golding
    “We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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  • #24
    Charlaine Harris
    “If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World
    tags: funny, sookie-eric
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Sometimes the bitch wins.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #27
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
    32117 likes



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