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^ I don't even remember that one, but it is a great quotation! Now I'm going to go look up the context.
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'Rome was not built in a day'. Is this from Shakespeare?
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^ I don't think so.
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A few more that I found interesting:
"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason." — Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
"Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting." — Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” ― William Shakespeare, Othello
“You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.”
― Alexandra Fuller,* Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness*
“Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Not that popular but I like them
"You're scored on my heart" - Me before you, Jojo Moyes.
"Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hand" - The last letter from your lover, Jojo Moyes.
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“Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.”
― Aravind Adiga, *The White Tiger
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.
The fault in our stars.