"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

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James Russell Lowell

#Bravery Quotes #Literature Quotes #Weak Quotes

“The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.”
“That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.”

Source : Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities #4: A Darkling Plain”, p.312, Scholastic Inc.
“History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.”
“There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].”

Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 194), 1997.
“When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.”
“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”
“If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”

Source : John Scalzi (2010). “Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008”, p.38, Macmillan
“I am the self-consumer of my woes,”

Source : 'I Am' (1848)

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