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The road to true love never did run smooth.Shakespeare
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
