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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
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“I am my best work of art.”
Audre Lorde
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter, 1850
“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
Robin Williams
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
Stephen King · Needful Things, 1991
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
“I fashioned myself a new name.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998
“I killed your father because he lied to me.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998
“I have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000
“You have been raised in the world of Muggles.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
Henry David Thoreau · Letter to Harrison Blake, 1848
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
Lily Tomlin
