June 2010
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“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”
– Winston Churchill (via churchillian) (via lostsplendor)
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911) (via quote-book)
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“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden,...”
– The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Love this book. My favorite (non HP) series is actually loosely based off of the world created by it.
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The Gruesome Origins of 5 Popular Fairy Tales →
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Little Red Riding Hood Most modern versions of fairy tales come from two sources: The Grimm Brothers from Germany, and Frenchman Charles Perrault, the collector of the “Mother Goose” tales. The big change they made to this one was the ending. That woodsman showing up seemed a little like a third act re-write of a...
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“To be, or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to...”
– Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” (via quote-book)
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“Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men”
– Thoreau (via melpeezy)
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“This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via double-vee) (via fuckyeahthoreau)
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“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world,...”
– William Wordsworth (via knockturn) (via fairphantom)
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May 2010
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When you get this message, it's after I've gone...
So it’s up to new content/stuff after I find after this.
Here there be monsters.
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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and…play consists of whatever...”
– The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine...”
– Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your...”
– Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily...”
– Walden, Henry David Thoreau (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.”
– Compensation, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so...”
– Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.”
– William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well (Act I. Scene ii) (via mirrorsandmirages)
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“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used...”
– Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I...”
– Walt Whitman | Submitted by twenty-one-secrets (via quote-book)
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“Grass grows quickly over a battlefield, over the scaffold never.”
– Winston Churchhill (via quote-book)
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“When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools”
– Lear, King Lear, Act IV, scene iv (via fuckyeahshakespeare)
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“Romeo: I dream’d a dream to-night.
Mercutio: And so did I.
Romeo: Well, what...”
– Romeo and Juliet, William Shakesepare (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root...”
– Animal Farm, George Orwell (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
– Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!”
– The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via quote-book)
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“The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its...”
– Michelangelo (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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“I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door...”
– Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to...”
– Mark Twain (via #johannal) (via quote-book)
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“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the...”
– Benjamin Franklin (via thekristamarie) (via quote-book)
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“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
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“As to me, I know of nothing else but Miracles.”
– Walt Whitman (via quote-book)
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“That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if...”
– The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman...”
– Mark Twain (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via iindia) (via quote-book)
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“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
– Winston Churchill (via quote-book)