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Nina’s Quotes

“There's nothing in this world within arm's-length of possibility that can not be done, when a man must.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

tags: inspirational

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“We do not have to become heroes overnight,” Eleanor once wrote. “Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II

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“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

tags: 1962, 363, gossip, history, priscus, truth

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“The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Deep River

tags: evil, good, salvation

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“One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that - to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to by others.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

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