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“Beauty gathered in the brightness of the sunny hours - is often best remembered in the quiet dark.”
― Winston O. Abbott

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
― Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment