Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Paul Hoffman
You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.
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.. The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.
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Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
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Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
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I have a message for your daughter, said Cale. I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by. And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.
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Better a live dog than a dead lion.
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Many are called, few are chosen.
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Get on your feet or die.
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T was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.
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Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.
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The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.
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Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.
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We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
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(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch.
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