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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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A man can get killed in there.
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As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.
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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
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These? Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled. He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
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No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand
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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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