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“Astra inclinant,” he would whisper into the wind, so heartachingly sincere even when quoting in Latin, “sed non obligant.” The stars incline us, they do not bind us.
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”
― The Crisis
― The Crisis
“And Sisi was struck by the Heine quote she had circled that morning, on her trip back to Vienna: Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one’s enemies—but not before they have been hanged.”
― Sisi: Empress on Her Own
― Sisi: Empress on Her Own
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
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Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
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“Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“You bow to no one,”
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
Melissa Lynn’s 2025 Year in Books
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