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“Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.”
Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010. 
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“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
Source : Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”
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“We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”
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“There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.”
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“One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.”
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“During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”
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“You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.”
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“Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.”
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“For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends”
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“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
