Van Wyck Brooks Quote – To Find Our Bad Traits
“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.” – Van Wyck Brooks
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“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.” – Van Wyck Brooks
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“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner
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“If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’ ” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Weakness in attitude becomes weakness in character” – Albert Einstein
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
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