Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth. Great Expectations
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen. Dubliners
Because diseases have been the biggest killers of people, they have also been decisive shapers of history. Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds. Guns, Germs And Steel
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