If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
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Shannon L. Alder
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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Euripides
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
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Heinrich Heine
It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.
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Seamus Heaney
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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