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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe

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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. – Daniel Defoe

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There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual — namely to You. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892

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Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. – Book Of Common Prayer

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