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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

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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
Jr.
Every
Men
Sword
Choose
Right

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I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.
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Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne
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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!
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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
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Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.
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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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Beauty holds more worth than gold.
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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
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