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William Shakespeare quote: "To show an unfelt sorrow is an office. Which the false man..."
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office. Which the false man does easy. William Shakespeare
David Hume quote: "A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence."
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence. David Hume
The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark, our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. Gene Wolfe
You have waged bitter and undeclared war upon the green, gutting the rain forests, mile after mile, day after day, but know this: the war has come home! It is man's turn to embrace the scythe. Alan Moore
...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory C. S. Lewis
I've got one more record. - Have you heard "So Long Letty"? I suppose you have.''Honestly, you don't understand - I haven't heard a thing.'Nor known, nor smelt, nor tasted he might have added; only hot cheeked girls in hot secret rooms. The young maidens he had known at New Haven in 1914 kissed men saying 'There!' hands at the man's chest to push him away. Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent... F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pythagoras quote: "No man is free who cannot control himself."
No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras
De Selby likens the position of a human on the earth to that of a man on a tight-wire who must continue walking along the wire or perish, being, however, free in all other respects. Movement in this restricted orbit results in the permanent hallucination known conventionally as 'life' with its innumerable concomitant limitations, afflictions and anomalies. Flann O'Brien
Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the same flesh during, the same ashes after life. But ignorance, mixed with the human composition, blackens it. This incurable ignorance possesses the heart of man, and there becomes evil. Victor Hugo
...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes. George R. R. Martin
Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment. Colleen McCullough
Dale Carnegie quote: "The successful man will profit from his mistakes andtry again..."
The successful man will profit from his mistakes andtry again in a different way. Dale Carnegie
Marilyn Monroe quote: "If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell..."
If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best. Marilyn Monroe
A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us. Sri Chinmoy
Theodor Adorno quote: "The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully..."
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. Theodor Adorno

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