They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Alexander Pope
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.
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Phoebe Cary
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.
I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.
How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.
