“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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