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1 " Pardon me that I have feared for you. Fear is born in doubt, and you have not merited my doubt. "
― Stephen R. Donaldson , White Gold Wielder (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, #3)
2 " Castigation is a doom which achieves itself. In punishing yourself, you come to merit punishment. "
3 " My heart has rooms that sigh with dust And ashes in the hearth. They must be cleaned and blown away By daylight’s breath. But I cannot essay the task, For even dust to me is dear; For dust and ashes still recall, My love was here. I know not how to say Farewell, When Farewell is the word That stays alone for me to say Or will be heard. But I cannot speak out that word Or ever let my loved one go: How can I bear it that these rooms Are empty so? I sit among the dust and hope That dust will cover me. I stir the ashes in the hearth, Though cold they be. I cannot bear to close the door, To seal my loneliness away While dust and ashes yet remain Of my love’s day. "
4 " Service enables service. Hope came from the power and value of what was served, not from the one who served it. "
5 " We are mortal, and the visage of failure is heinous to us. But we are not required to succeed. It is required of us only that we hold fast in every gale and let come what may. "
6 " Unearned knowledge is perilous. Only by the seeking and gaining of it may its uses be understood, its true worth measured. "
7 " Unearned knowledge rules its wielder, to the cost of both. "
8 " Sometimes ignorance is the only kind of bravery or at least willingness that does any good. "
9 " There’s only one way to hurt a man who’s lost everything. Give him back something broken. "