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  1. Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Minutes batter us like waves on a pebbled shore; if nothing stands against Time's scythe, why trust verse to endure?
    William Shakespeare

  2. The Prophet

    Much of your pain is self-chosen—could the bitter potion you sip be the healer within?
    Kahlil Gibran

  3. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    A lake like molten glass—so smooth you imagine walking beneath it; what do the dimpling circles hide?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  4. The Prophet

    Don’t claim you’ve found THE truth—say you met a truth on your path; how would that loosen your certainty?
    Kahlil Gibran

  5. The Prophet

    I have been among you like a lake that mirrors peaks and wandering flocks—what would your reflection reveal?
    Kahlil Gibran

  6. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    That government is best which governs not at all—when, if ever, will men be prepared for it?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  7. The Prophet

    Something is moving inside you right now—will you let it speak of love?
    Kahlil Gibran

  8. The Divine Comedy

    Children snatched by Death's teeth—where, then, is innocence spared from our human sin?
    Dante Alighieri

  9. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    Walden is a mirror no storm can crack—sky water whose quicksilver never wears off.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  10. Essays — First Series

    Insist on yourself—no borrowed talent can gather the cumulative force of your life; what part of you waits to be revealed?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  11. The Prophet

    A boundless self lives inside you that makes longing seem small—what will you answer to it?
    Kahlil Gibran

  12. Essays — First Series

    If all history can live in one mind, what private hour of yours explains a whole century?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  13. The Prophet

    If you make ethics a cage, you may silence your own song—what is your song trying to say?
    Kahlil Gibran

  14. Crime and Punishment

    Forget me—he begs them to abandon him before he can drag them down into whatever is destroying him.
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  15. Crime and Punishment

    He convinces himself he killed a principle, not a woman—and then turns that logic into savage self-loathing.
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor