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When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.
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An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.
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How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
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The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.
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Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?" He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise."
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No driven man hears unwanted counsel.
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My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.
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Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.
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It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.
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Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others.
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Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?" "Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams."
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All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.
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As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.
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Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.
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An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.
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necessity
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Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.
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thought-provoking
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Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.
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humor
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Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.
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mercy
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The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about.
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You can't let your past write the future
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Hate has no ears.
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Truth, of itself, does not kill.
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How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.
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knowledge
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Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.
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A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.
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Well your full of cow pies up to your ears! I don't give way on the orders of rabble, or bow to Devall's uppity marshal. He can stuff his gold braid! Yes, up his tight arse where it will hurt the most, for all that I care for his posturing! These wagons will pass. Afterwards, you can shoot all the crossbolts you like, and ram yourselves straight to oblivion!
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I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter. "Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company."
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There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.
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The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.
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You don't have to like a man to respect him.
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Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.
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I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.
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Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.
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There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.
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Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.
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You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.
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Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.
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the resolution of the great West Gate Prophecy.
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There is no terror so powerful as the one never faced.
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You cannot trust yourself,' she agreed, bed-rock calm. 'Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.
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Fanatics don't choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship's more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob." "What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?"
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This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.
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What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?
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ignorance
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Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?
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