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We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.: Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Love's Last Shift, Act 2
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.: William Blake (1757 - 1827), "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), Collected poems (1952)
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.: Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.: Robertson Davies
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.: Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887
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