Abraham Lincoln said, "Whatever you are, be a good one." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Lincoln and was first published in an 1897 memoir by Laurence Hutton, who attributed the quote to William Makepeace Thackeray.]
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"We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." Andre Berthiaume
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul." Mahatma Gandhi
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost
Niccolò Machiavelli said, "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
Thomas Kempis wrote, "Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible."
"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." Bernard Malamud
"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live." Marilyn Monroe
I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that’s why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it’s as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, we’re forced to face the truth. Ourselves.
Ralph Ellison said, "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
Elise Cabot said, "Evil endures a moment's flush, and then leaves but a burnt out shell."
"When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable." Writer Madeleine L'Engle
"Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them." Writer Oscar Wilde
"There is no such thing as part freedom." Nelson Mandela
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