"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays."

-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Life Quotes #Fear Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.”
“You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.”
“Death is better than slavery.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.96, Cambridge University Press
“was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?”
“I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.”
“The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.”
“A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.”
“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.”

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