Some people are worth melting for.
Olaf · The snowman voiced by Josh Gad in Frozen (2013) · The snowman lighting a fire to save a freezing Anna, even though it is melting him.
Short quotes of fewer than twenty words: the lines that fit a card, a caption or a text, every one checked to its source.
Olaf · The snowman voiced by Josh Gad in Frozen (2013) · The snowman lighting a fire to save a freezing Anna, even though it is melting him.
Horace · The source reads: “Magnas inter opes inops. A beggar amidst great riches.”
Rachel Brosnahan · The actress on kindness.
John Milton
The Bible · Isaiah 6:8
Douglas Jerrold
Winston Churchill · The source reads: “They were the geese who laid the golden eggs and never cackled.” · S, Said on many occasions, 1940
Michelle Obama · The source reads: “Happy 25th anniversary @barackobama. A quarter of a century later, you're still my best friend & the most extraordinary man I know. I love you.” · Michelle Obama's Instagram post to Barack on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary.
Winston Churchill · The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)
H. Jackson Brown Jr. · One of the instructions the author wrote down for his son.
Albert Einstein · To his editor and friend Saxe Commins, summer 1953.
Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948)
Nathaniel Hawthorne · Hawthorne to his fiancée Sophia Peabody from Salem, May 26, 1839, during their long engagement.
A Latin saying, ubi bene, ibi patria, with roots in Cicero and Aristophanes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · The source reads: “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'”
Ovid · The source reads: “Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur anulus usu. Dripping water hollows out a stone, a ring is worn away by use.”
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill · To a wartime secretary, 1940
Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. V, Closing the Ring (1952), 26 December 1943
Madame Roland · The source reads: “O libertè! O libertè! que de crimes on commet en ton nom! O liberty! O liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!”
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