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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #3
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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  • #9
    “Do not understand how the battle is fought, in which the fight takes place with itself.”
    ― Surya Raj
    tags: fight, motivational, oneliner, short, suryakantamangaraj
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  • #10
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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  • #11
    “God damn it, Minyard. This is why we can't have nice things.”
    ― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court
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    “It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”
    ― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court
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  • #13
    “Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.”
    ― robert m drake
    tags: happyquotes, hope, inspirational, inspirationalquotes, inspired, instadaily, instaquote, lovequotes, pinquotes, poems, poetry, quote, quoteoftheday, quotes, relationships, rmdrake, sadquotes, sayings, spokenword, tattoo, typewriter, vsco, writer, writing
    395 likes

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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: apologies, humor, offences, satire
    155 likes

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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: creature, folly, heathen, humor, senses, worship
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    131 likes

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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: humanity, humor, inhumanity, quality
    108 likes

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    Ambrose Bierce
    “MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: humor
    80 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

    [never tickle a sleeping dragon]”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: hogwarts, latin, motto, never-tickle-a-sleeping-dragon
    807 likes

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  • #21
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    ― Seneca
    tags: latin, philosophy, stars
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    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
    901 likes

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    René Descartes
    “Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: latin, life-and-living, mottos, thinking
    756 likes

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    Horatius
    “Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
    ― Horace, The Odes of Horace
    tags: death, dust, greek, latin, life, shadow
    797 likes

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    Ovid
    “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
    ― Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses
    tags: classic, latin
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    Kendall Ryan
    “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi.

    I will either find a way or make one.”
    ― Kendall Ryan, Unravel Me
    tags: find-a-way, latin
    236 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
    tags: change, latin
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    Ovid
    “Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”
    ― Ovid
    tags: latin, philosophy, rose
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    Dorian Cirrone
    “Veni, vidi, flevi.

    I came. I saw. I cried.”
    ― Dorian Cirrone, Prom Kings and Drama Queens
    tags: crying, emily, latin
    77 likes

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  • #30
    Ransom Riggs
    “Ardet nec consumitur," Melina said. "Burned but not destroyed.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
    tags: burned, latin, survivor
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