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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“On this account, nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. All things appear greater...” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
John Steinbeck
“Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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