It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it. Book VII
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. Three Guineas
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. Beware of Pity
“Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight / The Stars before him from the Field of Night, / Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes / The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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