"What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer—the Future so much brighter?"
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
"It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?"
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A Room With A View
by
E. M. Forster
"Everything that's worth having is some trouble."
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Anne Of Avonlea
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."
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Anne Of Avonlea
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are shadows because there are hills.
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A Room With A View
by
E. M. Forster
If you need something to worship, then worship life all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
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Dune Messiah
by
Frank Herbert
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
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Dune
by
Frank Herbert
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
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Villette
by
Charlotte Bronte
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit From pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
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Invictus
by
William Ernest Henley