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"Those endowed with extreme benevolence set the world in order; those possessed of extreme maliciousness turn the world into disorder."

The Dream of The Red Chamber

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"Those endowed with extreme benevolence set the world in order; those possessed of extreme maliciousness turn the world into disorder."

The Dream of The Red Chamber

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But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and, excessive, overturns all patience.

Paradise Lost, John Milton

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These are the lessons to be learned. Drink chamomile tea to calm the spirit. Feed a cold and starve a fever. Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage. Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer.

Magical Lessons, Alice Hoffman

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He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to.

The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson

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In English, we say: "I feel sad for no reason." But in poetry, we say: "Some days, the weight of nothing feels heavier than everything.”

In poetry we say, Frafka Nim

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“but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent.

The Remarkable Rocket, Oscar Wilde

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New tastes are like new ideas, young man— the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

Mistborn: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson

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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan

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True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

The book of tea, Kakuzo Okakura

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Women aren’t usually consulted on wars. We send our husbands and brothers and sweethearts to do the dying, hold the pieces together while they’re gone, then pick up what’s left when they come home—if they come home—but we’re seldom asked what we think.

The Echo of Old Books, Barbara Davis

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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

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Perhaps romance always seemed a slightly foolish thing to everyone until one actually fell into it.

Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer

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Honor without compassion was meaningless. Duty without love was nothing. War without the purpose of peace was just empty bloodshed.

Troll Queen (Elven Alliance, book 4), Tara Grayce

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But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery

Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turgenev

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“Men want power because it makes them feel good. Women want power because it lets us do things.

Daughter of No Worlds (The War of Lost Hearts), Carissa Broadbent

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Beauty is just like a book. Some will not bother to look beyond the cover; others will find the entire tome utterly captivating.

Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (Whimbrel House 1), Charlie N. Holmberg