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“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.”Anne Bronte
“I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.”Hugh LaurieCease
“I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.”Chelsea ManningCease
“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we can obtain and seek no sympathy from any living creature, and which yet we cannot, or will not wholly crush, we often naturally seek relief in poetry—and often find it, too—whether in the effusions of others, which seem to harmonize with our existing case, or in our own attempts to give utterance to those thoughts and feelings in strains less musical, perchance, but more appropriate, and therefore more penetrating and sympathetic, and, for the time, more soothing, or more powerful to rouse and to unburden the oppressed and swollen heart.”Anne BrontëPoetry
“No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.”Anne BronteCherish
“From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.”Heinrich SchliemannCease
“We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.”Leo TolstoyCease
“I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.”Amanda ForemanCease