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#1

“That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

tags: anne-of-avonlea, good-things, l-m-montgomery, spring

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#2

“Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory”
― Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

tags: inspirational

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#3

“Comparison is the death of joy.”
― Mark Twain

tags: comparison, joy

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#4

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#5

“You should never lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning long gone before that time. A person who has not done one half of his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: wisdom-in-fiction

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#6

“People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician's End

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#7

“There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician's End

tags: power, resilience, strength

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#8

“A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: boys, thought, wind, youth

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#9

“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: act-2, hamlet, play, scene-2, shakespeare, theater

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#10

“from The Princess: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls"

The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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#11

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: renewal, summer

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#12

“There is a strange thing about anticipation,” Fionchadd told him. “It is generally both more and less than the actuality that follows. A thing desired is rarely as pleasant to possess as it is to anticipate; a thing dreaded is rarely so foul.”
― Tom Deitz, Sunshaker's War

tags: desires, inspirational

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#13

“Unbidden, the lines from the Book of Job came to him: “Going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it”. He also remembered who it was that had said them.”
― Tom Deitz, Stoneskin's Revenge

tags: ambiguity, bible-quotes, devil, ominous

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#14

“And at the end of seven years the Queen of the Faeries pays a tithe to Hell,” Aikin finished, as he joined them. “That’s what it says in ‘Tam Lin’.”
― Tom Deitz, Dreamseeker's Road

tags: ballads, fairy-tales, folklore, hallows-eve, medieval-fantasy

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#15

“Fionn eased away from a sunbeam lest it bestir the glamour that hid him from human eyes—and promptly flinched as his hand came down on something burning hot. He squinted at the small round object embedded in the mould. A thumbbone’s length across, the object was—an inch, to use the Quick Folks term Silver had drilled into them—and fluted along the edge like a crown. A perfect circle. He flipped it over cautiously, with a twig. Letters showed on top: white on red. “Coke” it read, in the script Silver had also made them learn. “Top of one of their bottles,” he growled. “Amusing, if you think of it: how they leave such dangers about, not knowing.”
― Tom Deitz, Landslayer's Law

tags: environmental, fantasy-fiction, humour, mythical-creatures, mythology-fiction

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#16

“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Virgil, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6

tags: 4-203, forsan, meminisse, optimism, perhaps, poetry

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#17

“The Devil’s interval”, Logan murmured.
She looked at him. “I’m sorry?”
“The flatted fifth. G flat, for example, over C. It was a particular interval between two notes banned from church music in the Renaissance for it’s supposedly evil influence.”
― Lincoln Child, The Forgotten Room

tags: history, music, renaissance, superstition

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#18

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: music, romance, unrequited-love

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#19

“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: nature-books

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#20

“Some men might ha’ told the police about it—but I never cared much for them. They’re like kids in a way, always asking questions—most of which you can’t answer.”
― W. W. Jacobs

tags: authority, children, humor

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#21

“There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: hypocrisy, zealots

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#22

“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”
― Friedrich von Logau

tags: god, justice, patience, retribution

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#23

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin”
― Matthew 6 28

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#24

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

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#25

“When devils will the blackest sins put on
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows”
― William Shakespeare

tags: devil, iago, othello, shakespeare

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#26

“The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.”
― William Cowper

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#27

“In dying we are born to eternal life”
― Brenda Ritter, The 11th Hour of the 11th Day

tags: afterlife, death, death-of-a-loved-one

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#28

“There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: inspiration, mystery, philosophy, science

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#29

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted

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#30

“O benefit of ill! Now I find true
That better is by evil still made better;
And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
So I return rebuk'd to my content,
And gain by ills thrice more than I have spent.”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

tags: love, poetry, sonnet-119

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