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O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?—such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#sin #age

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#assure #election #experience #lawmakers #must

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#become #forget #something #up #wrapped

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ↗

— -Anatole France

#equality

Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....] Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#verbosity #equality

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

#gaudy #get #gold #i #i think

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances. ↗

— John Sculley

#chances #enough #found #i #i always

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words. ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#failing #frederick-weisel #story #teller #weisel

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. ↗

— Nicholas Charles Trublet

#equality