"Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern."

-- Robert Jordan

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“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2003). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.300, Courier Corporation
“I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.53, Everyman's Library
“I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me -- I actually took my teachers seriously!”
“Blow your life through your horn.”
“â€ŽTrue love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.”
“Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2004). “The Game: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes”, p.379, Bantam
“It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.”
“An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive”

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