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“In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“He takes no pleasure in human tears. He came and wept that He might stop forever the fountain of human tears. He came and…

— A.W. Tozer

“when she looked at him here in the dusk, her first and overwhelming desire, if one could call it that, was to invite him…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

— Homer

“He smiles and shakes his head, a smile that’s bewildered and content and still pursed by that same tender sadness that visited him by…

— Dane Huckelbridge

“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His…

— Carson McCullers

“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to pity, and…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and…

— C.S. Lewis

“His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal…

— Derek Donais

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“He lay in darkness, like a sacrifice; he could hear the teeth of his leprosy devouring his flesh. There was a smell of contempt…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“He was looking forward to his visit not only for the pleasure of the shrewd dealing which far transcended mere gross profit, but with…

— William Faulkner