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Courage for the Cabinet Girl

by Molly Green

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“A lover masculine so disappointed can speak and urge explanation, a lover feminine can say nothing; if she did, the result would be shame and anguish, inward remorse for self-treachery. Nature would brand such demonstration as a rebellion against her instincts, and would vindictively repay it afterwards by the thunderbolt of self-contempt smiting suddenly in secret.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: instincts, love, women-s-heart

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“If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

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“Small good decisions will lead you to the glorious path of success.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

tags: decision, glory, islam, spirituality, success, sufi

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“Some of the fighters wear the best uniforms, do the best drills, but hardly anyone has seen them fighting. Some you won't even think that they are fighters, but they are the best knights on the battlefield.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

tags: fighters, islam, knights, spirituality, sufi

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“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.”
― Henry James, The American

tags: boredom, silence, thoughtfulness

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