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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
- Character
- Life & Death
‘Never,’ said my aunt, ‘be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.’
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 15In context
- Advice
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
- Character
- Friendship
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i (1839)
- Courage
I repeat that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book VI, Chapter 7
- Power
- Responsibility
All is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1866)In context
- Courage
- Fear
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
- Change
- Character
Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IIIIn context
- Forgiveness
- God
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
- Character
- Health
Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Notes from Underground (1864), Part II: À Propos of the Wet Snow, Chapter IXIn context
- Character
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 5In context
- Character
- Truth & Lies
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellant man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Sign of the Four (1890), Chapter IIIn context
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963The Study of the Negro Problems, paragraph 51, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XI (January 1898)
- Courage
- Knowledge
Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Three Musketeers (1844), Chapter IIn context
- Advice
- Courage