"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
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"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
"It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."
"The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death."
"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"
"Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child."
"That does it,"said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.""Why?"Isabelle said."So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means."
"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
"Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear."
"Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana."
"Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance."
"It is only normal that people count losses with their minds, and ignore to count blessings with the graciousness of their hearts."
"No ideology is worth a Human life."
"When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other."
"For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"
"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."
"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success."
"Child on a Swing Haiku Child screeches like birdas swing reaches for heaven.Stars fill his pocket."
"And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one."
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