This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Elizabeth I

Tags: historical thankfulness

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Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Lauren Willig

Tags: fiction historical

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Our Euripides the human,
With his droppings of warm tears,
and his touchings of things common
Till they rose to meet the spheres.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Tags: inspirational humour historical

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I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.

Demosthenes

Tags: historical some-humour

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It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth Kostova

Tags: dark fiction horror dracula atmospheric historical vampire historian european moody vlad-the-impaler

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If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

Jefferson Davis

Tags: war historical american

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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

Tags: war historical american

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The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

Jefferson Davis

Tags: war historical american

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The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

M.C. Halliday

Tags: memoir historical erotica

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You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait.

Renee Vincent

Tags: romance historical raeliksen renee-vincent ræliksen

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