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#1

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

tags: adversity, character, power

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#2

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

tags: dishonesty, good-name, libel, reputation, shakespeare, slander, society, standing, theft, value, values

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#3

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#4

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

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#5

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

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#6

“I am sitting at my kitchen table waiting for my lover to arrive with lettuce and tomatoes and rum and sherry wine and a big floury loaf of bread in the fading sunlight. Coffee is percolating gently, and my mood is mellow. I have been very happy lately, just wallowing in it selfishly, knowing it will not last very long, which is all the more reason to enjoy it now. I suppose life always ends badly for almost everybody. We must have long fingers and catch at whatever we can while it is passing near us.”
― Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

tags: bittersweet, happiness, letters, life, love, tennessee-williams

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#7

“Stoker to Veronica. I thought it was love but I was so very wrong. I have never known love at least not until.....
I thought at some point I would have a great love like that. A woman fashioned by the gods just for me as I had been made just for her. That we would find each other. That she was waiting for me but I did not wait for her.
I married a base metal when the gods had promised me gold.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Treacherous Curse

tags: bittersweet, regret

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#8

“We wander in our thousands over the
face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the
seas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to me
that for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.
We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--those whom we
obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most
free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties,--even those for whom
home holds no dear face, no familiar voice,--even they have to meet the
spirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in its
valleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its trees--a
mute friend, judge, and inspirer.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: bittersweet, family, ghosts, home, home-town, homecoming, humanity, mankind, old-friends, prodigal-daughters, prodigal-sons, return, reunion, stomping-grounds

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#9

“Life at best is bittersweet.”
― Jack Kirby

tags: beautiful, bittersweet, comics, jack-kirby, life, marvel

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#10

“She smiled. She was happy, yet sad. Life had never been more bittersweet. She looked at the
sunset. The pink sky was sinking into the deep blue ocean. It was almost as if the sky knew
it was making a mistake, digging its own grave. But for a moment there, at the very moment
before diving into the darkness of the sea, on the golden horizon, the sky shone brighter
than it ever had. It was glorious in its five seconds of fame. It was serendipitously happy,
like all its life had led to that moment. And then it died into the sea, content.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi, The Terrorist's Daughter

tags: bittersweet, life, melancholy

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#11

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
― Émile Zola

tags: atheism, civilization, organized-religion, religion

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#12

“Rashers, me heart, if it was raining soup, you'd have nothing but a fork.”
― James Plunkett, Strumpet City

tags: humor, irish-literature, life, reality

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#13

“In this kip of a city it's regarded as a crime for a poor man to go about his lawful occasions”
― James Plunkett

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#14

“In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: accurate, black-and-white, concrete, fake-people, fine-print, obtrusive, personality, smugly, transparent, true-colors, truth, two-goody-shoes, virtuous-person

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#15

“It's funny how the people who know the least about you, always have the most to say.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

tags: fake-people, funny-quotes, gossip-quotes, hatred-quotes, jealous-quotes, jealousy-quotes, rumors-quotes, trash-talk-quotes

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#16

“I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who fake their perfection.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

tags: fake-people, honesty-quotes, integrity-quotes

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#17

“They must wait. The gates were closed. The keys that could open them were in other hands.”
― James Plunkett, Strumpet City

tags: irish-literature, patience

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#18

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: divorce, leaving

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#19

“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: john-green, leaving, paper-towns, sad

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#20

“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies … the pain of the leaving can tear us apart.
Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.”
― Henri Nouwen

tags: leaving, love, pain

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#21

“Perhaps we only leave
So we may once again arrive,
To get a bird's eye view
Of what it means to be alive.
For there is beauty in returning,
Oh how wonderful, how strange,
To see that everything is different
But know it's only you who's changed.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: arrive, beauty, change, discover, leave, live, love, soul-searching, strangeness, viewpoint

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#22

“It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Path of Minor Planets

tags: life, love, people, relationships, staying

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#23

“Don't Just

Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: act, action, change, criticize, doing, dream, dreams, encouragement, experience, feeling, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, listening, living, optimism, optimistic, ponder, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thinking, transform

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#24

“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: city-of-bones, humor, jace-wayland, quotes

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#25

“And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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#26

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#27

“Speak not of wealth; 'tis not wealth makes men”
― John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet

tags: man, speak, wealth

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#28

“So sleeps the pride of former days —More”
― John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet

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#29

“We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal. Shakespeare”
― John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet

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