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101 quotes from authors quoted once or twice, in alphabetical order. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.

Frederick Douglass

1. “Thus, after a long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write.”

George Eliot

1. “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

2. “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life”

George MacDonald

1. “I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.”

Giacomo Leopardi

1. “Thus wandering My thought in this immensity is drowned; And sweet to me is shipwreck on this sea.”

Giovanni Boccaccio

1. “’Tis humane to have compassion on the afflicted and as it shews well in all, so it is especially demanded of those who have had need of comfort and have found it in others”

H. G. Wells

1. “If the world does not please you you can change it. Determine to alter it at any price, and you can change it altogether.”

Hafiz

1. “Wind of the dawn that passest by, / Swift to the street of my fairy hie, / Whisper the tale of Hafiz true, / Fresh and afresh and new and new!”

2. ““That I am born to fade grieves not my heart; / But never was it a true lover’s part / To vex with bitter words his love’s repose.””

Heinrich Heine

1. “Heart, my heart, oh, be not shaken! / Bravely bear thy fate. Once more / Shall the coming Spring restore / What the Winter rude hath taken.”

2. “'Twas in the beauteous month of May, / When all the flowers were springing, / That first within my bosom / I heard love’s echo ringing.”

Helen Hunt Jackson

1. “O Heart, remember, vintages are lost If grapes do not for freezing night-dews wait. Think, while thou sunnest thyself in Joy’s estate, Mayhap thou canst not ripen without frost!”

Henri Poincaré

1. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing.”

2. “To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.”

Henrik Ibsen

1. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”

2. “The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom, they are the pillars of society.”

Henry James

1. “Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had?”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1. “Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”

Henryk Sienkiewicz

1. “The life of man, if it is to be normal, should be ingrafted on the trunk of nature, grow out of it, as a branch grows out of a tree, and exist in virtue of those same laws.”

2. “It seemed to us that we had brought to that wedding of Nature our own wedding, to that calm our calm, and to that bright light the bright light of happiness within us.”

Herman Melville

1. “Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

2. “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”

Hippolyte Taine

1. “The peaceful stars shine like points of flame; the whole air is filled with a blue and tender light, which seems to sleep in the network of vapor wherein it lies.”

2. “In these gorges, water is the mother of all life and the nurse of all beauty.”

J. M. Barrie

1. “Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.”

2. ““Second to the right,” said Peter, “and then straight on till morning.””

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