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Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast. ↗

— John Green

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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#writing #wise

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gamgee #hobbit #samwise #tolkien #job

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#everyone #governs #his #learns #nobody

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. ↗

— Plato

#poets #themselves #things #understand #utter

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. ↗