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"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."
Of Adversity Sir Francis Bacon
"Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue."
Poem: Dulce et Decorum est. Wilfred Owen
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)"
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
"The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea."
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Love of the Last Tycoon
"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling
"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."