"A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity."

-- Joseph Addison

#Sympathy Quotes #Brother Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.”
“You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!”
“Itâ€™s rather a strong check to oneâ€™s self-complacency to find how much of oneâ€™s right doing depends on not being in want of money.”
“Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent”, p.8
“What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.”
“I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.”
“Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.”
“I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.”

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