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“Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.”
Source : John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185
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“If you're starting out or trying to get to the next level, surround yourself with people who keep you motivated and energized - people who inspire you to achieve your best every day. When you do this, you can't lose.”
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“Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.”
Source : FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Dec 18, 2013
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“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”
Source : "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.
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“I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...”
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“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution”
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“It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.”
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“When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.”