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    René Descartes
    “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: literature, reading, words
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen
    tags: happiness
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    Alan Noble
    “The challenge facing us today is not so much the temptation to be relevant to the point that we lose the gospel, but the tendency to unknowingly accept a secular understanding of our faith while believing that we are boldly declaring the gospel.”
    ― Alan Noble, Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
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    Jane Austen
    “Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: agreement, compliments, discussion, disdain, intelligence, opposition, rationality, reason
    511 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: books, learning, love, serenity
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood
    3085 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
    12170 likes

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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: books, reading
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot. ”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: marriage
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: conscience, innocence
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: eyre, jane
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: love, poetry
    1374 likes

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    Alan Noble
    “The gospel is not a preference. It’s not another piece of flair we add to our vest. It’s something far more beautiful and disturbing. The gospel is the power to raise the dead, to proclaim the greatness of God in a fallen and confused world.”
    ― Alan Noble, Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
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    Gordon Korman
    “A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.”
    ― Gordon Korman, Linked
    tags: teamwork, tolerance
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    Patti Callahan Henry
    “The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.”
    ― Patti Callahan, Once Upon a Wardrobe
    tags: feeling, fiction, love, myth, stories
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    Patti Callahan Henry
    “I don’t know the right answer to anything these days.”

    “Neither do I, Mum. I don’t know if anyone does. Only math problems seem to have right and wrong answers, far as I can tell lately.”
    ― Patti Callahan, Once Upon a Wardrobe
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    Betty G. Birney
    “If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have never been in a dark room with a mosquito”
    ― Betty G. Birney
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    Gordon Korman
    “Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”
    ― Gordon Korman
    tags: education, laminating, teachers, teaching
    146 likes

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  • #20
    Anna Faversham
    “Become acquainted with your soul, care for it, for it will outlast all you have.”
    ― Anna Faversham, Hide in Time
    tags: thought-provoking
    27 likes



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