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“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
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“...where there is a disposition to dislike, a motive will never be wanting”
― Lady Susan
― Lady Susan
“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.”
― An Ember in the Ashes
― An Ember in the Ashes
“Far better to dare mighty things and fail mightily than to never dare at all.”
― The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora
― The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora
“But there is nothing a man might not do, with you to encourage him. You make me wish to be a hero." He laughed, but Hester did not laugh. She gave him a keen look, in which there was a touch of disdain. " Do you really think," she said, " that the charm of inspiring, as you call it, is what any reasonable creature would prefer to doing? To make somebody else a hero rather than be a hero yourself? Women would need to be disinterested indeed if they like that best. I don't see it. Besides, we are not in the days of chivalry. What could you be inspired to do— make better bargains on your Stock Exchange?”
― Hester
― Hester
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