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776 quotesWork out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
self-esteem
Buddha
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
Deceit
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Sorrow
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Aid and Assistance
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
Doubt
John Bunyan
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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Language
Anthony Burgess
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Perseverance
Edmund Burke
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Ambition
Lord Byron
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I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
Intentions
Lord Byron
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Books - Reading
Lord Byron
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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Jealousy
Lord Byron
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Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Fortune
Appius Claudius Caecus
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
Life and Living
John C. Calhoun
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I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
Nostalgia
Callimachus
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Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
Faces
Albert Camus
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Albert Camus
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Autobiography
Elias Canetti
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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
Fame
Truman Capote
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Enemies
Thomas Carlyle
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Critics and Criticism
Thomas Carlyle
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Individuality
Thomas Carlyle
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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
Ideology
John Le Carre
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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
Cities and City Life
Johnny Carson
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I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.
Profanity
Helena Bonham Carter
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Winter
Willa Cather
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun