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#1

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: character, honor, honorability, honorable, horor, humility, leadership, meek, nobility, noble, selfish, selfless, selflessness, truth, truthful, truthfulness

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#2

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

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#3

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#4

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: advice, apology

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#5

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: growth, new-year

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#6

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: inspirational

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#7

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#8

“When you are finished changing, you're finished.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: changing-with-lean-six-sigma

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#9

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen

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#10

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#11

“I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.

But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

tags: vanity

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#12

“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

tags: agnes-grey, love, romance, thoughts

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#13

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted

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#14

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes

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#15

“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

tags: theatre, thespians

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#16

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
― alexander pope, Letters of the Late Alexander Pope, Esq. to a Lady. Never Before Published

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#17

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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#18

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#19

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance

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#20

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#21

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: complaints, histrionics, hysterics, irony, mrs-bennett, suffering

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#22

“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
― Charlotte Brontë

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#23

“If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.”
― Charlotte Brontë

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#24

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: anxiety, regret

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#25

“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
― John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

tags: regret

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#26

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: bad, liar

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#27

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

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#28

“إذا التَبسَ عليكَ أمرانِ، فَانظُر أثقلهما على النفْس فاتّبِعهُ؛ فإنهُ لا يَثَقلُ عليها إلا ما كان حقًا.”
― أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري, الحِكم العطائية

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