"Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console."

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Source : Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Pliny the Younger

#Writing Quotes #Joy Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.”

Source : "A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists". Book by Russell L. Herman, p. 53, December 4, 2013.
“Politics and football don't mix.”
“To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.”

Source : Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional
“We are what we frequently do.”
“I am such a scaredy-cat.”
“I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.”
“I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.”
“If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.”

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