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    “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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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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  • #3
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: advice, apology
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “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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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: inspirational
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “When you are finished changing, you're finished.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: changing-with-lean-six-sigma
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    Jane Austen
    “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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    Jane Austen
    “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Anne Brontë
    “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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    Anne Brontë
    “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
    Alexander Pope
    “A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted
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  • #14
    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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    Alexander Pope
    “Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
    tags: theatre, thespians
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    Alexander Pope
    “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
    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Jane Austen
    “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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    Jane Austen
    “The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “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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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    John Wooden
    “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
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: bad, liar
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  • #27
    Anne Brontë
    “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
    ابن عطاء الله السكندري
    “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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