"Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is……" — Victor Hugo

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
• The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective… — Tammy Bruce
• It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies… — Joseph Campbell
• Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity. — Sally-Ann Roberts
• The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged… — Lewis Mumford
• All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come… — Felix Dennis
• If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure… — A. E. Housman
• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand… — Winston Churchill
• Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those… — Bertolt Brecht
• Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the… — Thomas Huxley

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