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“If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
― Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“no man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time”
― Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates

“for the unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates

“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Men should be taught as if you taught them not,           And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“[I retained] only the Habit of expressing my self in Terms of modest Diffidence, never using when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the Words 'Certainly, 'undoubtedly', or any others that I give the Air of Positiveness to an Opinion; but rather say 'I conceive', or 'I apprehend a Thing to be so or so', 'It appears to me', or 'I should think it so or so for such & such Reasons', or 'I imagine' it to be so or so, or 'it is so' if I am not mistaken.—This Habit I believe has been of great Advantage to me, when I have had occasion to inculcate my Opinions and persuade Men into Measures that I have been from time to time engag'd in promoting.—And as the chief Ends of Conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well meaning sensible Men would not lessen their Power of doing Good by a Positive assuming Manner that seldom fails to disgust, tends to create Opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which Speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving Information or Pleasure: For if you would inform, a positive dogmatical Manner in advancing your Sentiments, may provoke Contradiction & prevent a candid Attention.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“For want of modesty is want of sense.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“എന്റെ മുത്തശ്ശിയുടെ വീട്ടില്‍
പണ്ട് ചുവരില്‍ ഫ്രെയിം തൂക്കിയ
തവിട്ട് നിറമുള്ള
കുറച്ച് ഫോട്ടോകളുണ്ടായിരുന്നു.
എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും അതിലൊരെണ്ണം
ഞാനൊന്ന് പൊക്കി നോക്കി
അപ്പോള്‍ ഒരു തേള്‍ മയക്കമുണര്‍ന്ന്
വാലുയര്‍ത്തും,കുത്തിക്കെട്ടിയാല്‍
നന്നായി വേദനിക്കും കേട്ടോ.
മുത്തശ്ശി വിളിച്ചു പറഞ്ഞു
അവറ്റയുടെ ഉള്ളില്‍ വിഷമാണേയ്

വെറുതെ വിടുമ്പോഴാണ്
ഭൂതകാലത്തിന് ഭംഗി”
― Madhavikutty

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Villette

“To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“No man can deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him,” I replied: “it cost more to redeem their souls—it cost the blood of an incarnate God, perfect and sinless in Himself, to redeem us from the bondage of the evil one:—let Him plead for you.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.”
― Pascal

“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. (p.9)”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action;”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“My recommendation: don’t be special; don’t be unique. Redefine your metrics in mundane and broad ways. Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator.
The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible.This often means giving up some grandiose ideas about yourself: that you’re uniquely intelligent, or spectacularly talented, or intimidatingly attractive, or especially victimized in ways other people could never imagine. This means giving up your sense of entitlement and your belief that you’re somehow owed something by this world.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life