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"Well, then, my philosophy is that what you think of and plan for day by day, in spite of yourself, so to speak–you will get. […] Because a thing that is dreamed of in the way I mean, is already an accomplished fact."

The idealism of certain characters by other characters is obnoxious and I'm only on the chapter three…

"No, I'm not angry. I know your thoughts. Your heart is better than your head."

"The terrible thing is that beauty is not only fearful but also mysterious."

"But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate. Remember that!"

"…his is a stormy soul. His mind is held captive. There is a great and unresolved thought in him. He's one of those who don't need millions, but need to resolve their thought."

"Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. […] And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie."

"…the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of their ebulliently youthful life to hard, difficult studies, to learning, in order to increase tenfold their strength to serve the very truth and the very deed that they loved and set out to accomplish—such sacrifice is quite often almost beyond the strength of many of them."

"…though you're like an angel, nothing touches you."

"Such memories can be remembered (everyone knows this) even from an earlier age, even from the age of two, but they only emerge throughout one's life as specks of light, as it were, against the darkness, as a corner torn from a huge picture, which has faded and disappeared except for that little corner."

"In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we."

"What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes / Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find / They are inclined to do so." (2.1.190-2)

"Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win, / By fearing to attempt." (I.4.77-9)

"It seems to me / That yet we sleep, we dream." (IV.1.194-5)

"And though she be but little, she is fierce." (III.2.335)

"Love takes the meaning in love's conference. / I mean that my heart unto yours is knit / So that but one heart we can make of it." (II.2.46-48)

"Your virtue is my privilege: for that / It is not night when I do see your face, / Therefore I think I am not in the night. / Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, / For you in my respect are all the world. / Then how can it be said I am alone, / When all the world is here to look on me?" (II.1.224-230)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." (I.1.237-8)

"Ay me, for aught that I could ever read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth." (I.1.134-6)

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;" (V.5.49)

"Give me the crown. / Here, cousin – seize the crown. Here, cousin – / On this side, my hand; and on that side, thine. / Now is this golden crown like a deep well / That owes two buckets, filling one another, / The emptier ever dancing in the air, / The other down, unseen, and full of water. / That bucket down and full of tears am I, / Drinking my griefs whilst you mount up on high." (IV.1.180-8)

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, / [...] Out, out, brief candle! / Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / Signifying nothing." (V.v.19-28)

"The night is long that never finds the day." (IV.iii.240)

"O that I were as great / As is my grief, or lesser than my name, / Or that I could forget what I have been, / Or not remember what I must be now! / Swellest thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat, / Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me." (III.3.137-141)

"Methinks King Richard and myself should meet / With no less terror than the elements / Of fire and water when their thundering shock / At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven. / Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water; / The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain / My waters - on the earth, and not on him." (III.3.54-60)

"My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, / But presently prevent the ways to wail. / To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, / Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe, / And so your follies fight against yourself." (III.2.178-182)

"Then if angels fight, / Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right." (III.2.61-2)

"I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" / In an ungracious mouth is but profane." II.3.88-9.

"The person who spoke these words and the person who spoke to her as her father were not the same, though they seemed to occupy the same space. It would be the worst sort of taste to acknowledge the person who was not supposed to be there; it would not be forgiven."