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Oscar Wilde quote: "The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and..."
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer. Oscar Wilde
Charlaine Harris quote: "Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great..."
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. Charlaine Harris
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes? I mean the universe? but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written Galileo Galilei
Thomas Pynchon quote: "He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for..."
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. Thomas Pynchon
When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church. Gordon B. Hinckley
Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans! Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas. Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans? Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else. Kim Jong Il: Or else... Trey Parker
Danielle Steel quote: "Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we..."
Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. Danielle Steel
Failure. Because God put His adamantine fate. Between my sullen heart and its desire, I swore that I would burst the Iron Gate, Rise up, and curse Him on His throne of fire. Earth shuddered at my crown of blasphemy, But Love was as a flame about my feet; Proud up the Golden Stair I strode; and beat. Thrice on the Gate, and entered with a cry --All the great courts were quiet in the sun, And full of vacant echoes: moss had grown. Over the glassy pavement, and begun. To creep within the dusty... Rupert Brooke
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies. Mark Helprin
Julia Child quote: "...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing."
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. Julia Child
To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard. William Makepeace Thackeray
Once, a great handful of a girl out west told him - I never did love you. […]How mean of her to salve her spit curled conscience by trying to take away their past! In the kitchen he had started to use those very words on Lou - they sprang readily to mind, as wounding words do - but he stopped himself. Annie Dillard
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like. Thomas Harris
The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, "the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages. Edith Hamilton
in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'dAnd left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd Kingof France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed. William Shakespeare

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