"The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull."

-- Diana Gabaldon

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“If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.”
“Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.”
“I walk so fast, I talk so fast, I could turn the light off and be in bed before the room's dark.”
“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.97, Macmillan
“Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.”
“You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.”
“There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.”
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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