Everything may be labelled—but everybody is not.
~
The Age of Innocence
by
Edith Wharton
"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."
~
Anne Of Avonlea
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
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
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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Invictus
by
William Ernest Henley
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
by
Oscar Wilde
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
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Little Women
by
Louisa May Alcott
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
by
Charles Dickens