“adversity bends the heart as fire bends the stubborn steel, and those who are no longer their own governors, and the denizens of their own free independent state, must crouch before strangers.”
― Ivanhoe
― Ivanhoe
“the worst evil which befalls our race is, that when we are wronged and plundered, all the world laughs around, and we are compelled to suppress our sense of injury, and to smile tamely, when we would revenge bravely.”
― Ivanhoe
― Ivanhoe
“A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!”
― The Lagoon
― The Lagoon
“the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty—all equal before sleep, death's brother.”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
“We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond the words. Nobody knows what suffering or sacrifice mean—except, perhaps the victims of the mysterious purpose of these illusions.”
― Tales of Unrest
― Tales of Unrest
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