Quote collection
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"There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone."
"Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous."
"Even coal shimmers in the light"
"If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself"
"There is no treasure like the human heart."
"It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see."
"Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released"
"Hate engenders loneliness and despair"
"It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most."
"What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?"
"What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?"
"There is no place for innocence on the battlefield."
"Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings."
"What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered."
"Some trees are too deeply rooted to move ... And if they are uprooted, they will die."
"Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free"
"True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder"
"Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness"
"True kindness ennobles the giver"
"Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom"