"Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy."

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Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.45

William Gilmore Simms

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“War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.”
“People have known me for so long, I'm just Della to them.”
“I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.”
“We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness.”
“But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.”
“Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?”

Source : Kristen Ashley (2012). “Play it Safe”, p.123, Rock Chick LLC
“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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