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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter I
- Advice
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
- Leadership
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley1875–1947The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 69
- Power
Every man and woman is a mystery, built like those Chinese puzzles which consist of one box inside another, so that ten or twelve boxes have to be opened before the final solution is found.
Robertson Davies1913–1995The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
If ever I become entirely respectable I shall be quite sure that I have outlived myself.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the First: Recalled to Life, Chapter IIIIn context
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XXVIIIn context
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XIn context
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Pride
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 1In context
- Life & Death
The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886The Soul selects her own Society (1890)In context
- Friendship
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
- Change
I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Notes from Underground (1864), Part I: Underground, Chapter IIn context
- Health