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That’s the danger of judging anything, thought Taleswapper: There are a hundred possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects from every cause.
“So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thy self away, art present still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them, and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
Thy self away, art present still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them, and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
“there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?”
― Pathfinder
― Pathfinder
“For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
From me far off, with others all too near.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
“I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
“One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
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