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Nothing in this world is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Kerry Patterson • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin • Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics)
Love cannot be prevented, love cannot be set aside, no thoughts of utility or shame can intervene.”
Delmore Schwartz • In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
but you must fear, His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; For he himself is subject to his birth:
The Wright Angles • Complete Works of William Shakespeare: 197 Plays, Poems & Sonnets
we did think it writ down in our duty
The Wright Angles • Complete Works of William Shakespeare: 197 Plays, Poems & Sonnets
That life is better life, past fearing death, Than that which lives to fear:
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” is a famous line from Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Divine Comedy. This line appears at the entrance to Hell in the first part of the poem, Inferno.
The phrase serves as a warning to those who enter Hell, signalling that there is no hope for redemption or salvation once they
But like a steddy ship doth strongly part The raging waves, and keeps her course aright: Ne aught for tempest doth from it depart, Ne aught for fairer weather’s false delight. Such self-assurance need not fear the spight Of grudging foes; ne favour seek of friends; But in the stay of her own stedfast might Neither to one herself nor other bends. Mo
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.