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    Julian of Norwich
    “He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.”
    ― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
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    Julian of Norwich
    “God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.”
    ― Julian of Norwich
    tags: love, spirituality
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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    Stella Gibbons
    “Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.”
    ― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
    tags: humour
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    “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
    Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
    Where there is injury, pardon;
    Where there is doubt, faith;
    Where there is despair, hope;
    Where there is darkness, light;
    And where there is sadness, joy.

    O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
    to be consoled as to console,
    to be understood as to understand,
    to be loved, as to love.

    For it is in giving that we receive,
    It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
    and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
    ― Anglican clergyman
    tags: aspirations, prayer, spirituality
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    Pierre Abélard
    “The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.”
    ― Peter Abelard
    tags: truth
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    William Shakespeare
    “O, if I say, you look upon this verse,
    When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
    Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
    But let your love even with my life decay;
    Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
    And mock you with me after I am gone.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: death
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    John Donne
    “Death is an ascension to a better library. ”
    ― John Donne
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.”
    ― Saint Augustine
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “If no love is, O God, what fele I so?
    And if love is, what thing and which is he?
    If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?
    If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer
    tags: love
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    John Milton
    “Solitude sometimes is best society.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: companionship, privacy, solitude
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Gloria Steinem
    “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
    ― G K Chesterton
    tags: history
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  • #22
    Gloria Steinem
    “Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: death, feminism, men, murder, widowhood, women, womens-rights
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  • #23
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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  • #25
    “Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
    For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
    ― John Harrington
    tags: politics
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: book-lovers, bookworms, heavenly-rewards, judgment, reading
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.”
    ― G K Chesterton
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    Julian of Norwich
    “The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”
    ― Julian of Norwich
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    Frances Wilson
    “Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either lick their wounds in humiliated silence or start the Trojan Wars. Having no other power or public voice, the betrayed woman reaches for her pen.”
    ― Frances Wilson, The Courtesan’s Revenge
    tags: betrayal, revenge
    21 likes



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