Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth. Great Expectations
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand. Don Quixote
For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth. The Karamazov Brothers
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity. Sweet Thursday
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