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    علي بن أبي طالب
    “By the welling of lord of Ka'ba, I have succeeded.”
    Imam Ali

  • #2
    علي بن أبي طالب
    “Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.”
    Ali Bin Abi Thalib

  • #3
    John Lennon
    “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
    John Lennon

  • #4
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #5
    Ben Jonson
    “In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.”
    Ben Jonson

  • #6
    Ben Jonson
    “I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground
    Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound.
    Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death
    With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath
    Of discontent; or that these prayers be
    For weariness of life, not love of thee.”
    Ben Jonson, Epigrams; And, the Forest

  • #7
    Ben Jonson
    “Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!”
    Ben Jonson, Volpone; Or, the Fox
    tags: virtue

  • #8
    Ben Jonson
    “Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.”
    Ben Jonson, Volpone; Or, the Fox

  • #9
    William Wordsworth
    “Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.”
    William Wordsworth

  • #10
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #12
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #14
    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    Anais Nin

  • #15
    Eugene O'Neill
    “I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
    Eugene O'Neill

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Tess Gerritsen
    “I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
    Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

  • #18
    Veronica Roth
    “Human reason can excuse any evil.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #19
    Arrigo Boito
    “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
    Arrigo Boito

  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #21
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #23
    David Hume
    “No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
    David Hume, Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

  • #24
    Charles Dickens
    “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
    Charles Dickens



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