"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.48, The Floating Press
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