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“If there were no heroes, there would be no heroism.”

“The more scientific worldview a person has, the more logical his thinking is.”

“Life is a choice between being passive in its face and being active for its sake.”

“Love is a defeat of human egoism before the selflessness of the lover.”

“The embodiment of the values of Humanism in people will open the way to humanity's self-awareness and unity.”

“A miracle is quaint probability of a confluence of circumstances, unrevealed by our mind.”

“I am faint; Lord have mercy upon me, and take my spirit.”

“I am glad to die.”

“I recognize no Queen but my mother. But if the King's Mistress would intercede with the King on my behalf, then I would be grateful.”

“And so am not I.”

“Priest! Priest! Music! Music!”

“This natural life of ours is but a pilgrimage from this wandering world, and exile from our own country: that is to say, a way from all misery to thee (Lord) which art our whole felicity. And lest the pleasantness and commodity of this life should withdraw us from the going to the right and speedy way to thee, thou dost stir and provoke us forward, and as yet ward prick us with thorns, to the intent we should covet a quiet rest, and end of our journey. Therefore sickness, weepings, sorrow, mourning, and in conclusion all adversities be unto us as spurs; with the which we being dull horses, or rather very asses, are forced not to remain long in this transitory way. Wherefore Lord, give us grace to forget this wayfaring journey, and to remember our proper and true country. And if thou do add a weight of adversity, add thereunto strength, that we shall not be overcome with that burden: but having our minds continually erected and lift up to thee, we may be able to strongly bear it. Lord! all things be thine; therefore do with all things, without any exception, as shall seem convenient to thine unsearchable wisdom. And give us grace never to will but as thou wilt. So be it.”

“Whiles my father lives i shall only be lady mary, the most unhappy lady in christendom.”

“When the beauty of soul and body is added to sympathy, together they give life to a person of infinite value.”

“Your dream will never end until you stop believing it.”

“Provoke is an innate instinct of the personality.”

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

“The only way to cope with other people's disconnection (because it is so painful) is to become disconnected yourself. But then you become part of the problem. You make the world more dangerous and less conducive to the wellbeing of all life on earth.”

“Justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. You tried that in the case of the negro.”