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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    William Wordsworth
    “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
    But to be young was very heaven.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Prelude
    tags: love
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    George Washington
    “I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
    ― George Washington
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Love is the only prayer I know.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
    tags: love, prayer
    132 likes

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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
    tags: choices, good-and-evil, lancelet
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
    tags: arthurian, fate, merlin
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: liberty, political-philosophy, politics
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    Alice Hoffman
    “You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
    tags: aziza, he-dovekeepers, love
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Why can't people say what they mean at the time?”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
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    Dante Alighieri
    “From there we came outside and saw the stars”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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    Abigail Adams
    “...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
    ― Abigail Adams
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    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    tags: spirituality
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
    "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
    tags: faith, love, peace
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: appeasement, human, humor, nature, politics
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    Dante Alighieri
    “In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
    tags: destruction, history, permanence
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
    4365 likes

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    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
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    Emily Brontë
    “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Cynthia Rylant
    “When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.”
    ― Cynthia Rylant, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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