Top 62 Janny Wurts Quotes
#1. Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.
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#2. There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.
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#3. Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?
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#4. Sithaer's dark furies," Dakar swore. "Why do I stay with you?"
"For maudlin entertainment, no doubt.
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#5. I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.
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#6. The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about.
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#8. As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.
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#9. It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.
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#10. This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.
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#12. The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.
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#13. My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.
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#14. Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.
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#15. But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!
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#17. Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.
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#18. A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.
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#19. Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.
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#20. Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.
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#21. I trust you," she murmured through urgency. "Completely. Without end, and before the beginning.
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#22. You can't let your past write the future
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#23. You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.
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#24. Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others.
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#25. Fanatics don't choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship's more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob."
"What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?
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#26. Did I mention any name?" But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. "That's the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we've been kissing coiled vipers for a penny bet.
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#27. There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.
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#28. But hope always kindles through striving.
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#29. Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?
He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise.
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#30. How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.
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#31. The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance.
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#32. What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?
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#33. Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.
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#34. Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.
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#35. You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.
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#36. I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.
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#37. You cannot trust yourself,' she agreed, bed-rock calm. 'Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.
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#38. Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer?
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#39. Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.
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#40. Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.
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#41. Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!
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#42. You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.
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#44. Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.
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#45. Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity.
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#46. There is no terror so powerful as the one never faced.
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#47. Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.
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#48. An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.
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#49. You don't have to like a man to respect him.
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#50. Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?"
"Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams.
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#51. A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade.
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#52. How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
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#53. There's a choice?"
"Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.
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#54. There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written.
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#55. I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter.
"Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.
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#56. An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.
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#57. Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.
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#59. I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.
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#60. What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character?
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#61. Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.
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#62. When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.
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