Search the scriptures.

The Bible · John 5:39

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.

The Bible · Ecclesiastes 7:8

Quit you like men, be strong.

The Bible · 1 Corinthians 16:13

Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.

The Bible · Ecclesiasticus 3:19

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So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Victor Hugo · Les Misérables (1862), preface

"The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.

E. M. Forster · Aspects of the Novel (1927)

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Emily Brontë · Catherine to Nelly Dean in the same chapter 9 speech, a moment before "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"; the sentence before it says her love for Linton "is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it".

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“Search the scriptures.”

“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.”

“Quit you like men, be strong.”

“Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.”

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

“"The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.”

“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”