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Hand-picked Short quotes with unknown authors quotes with clean attributions and practical context. Includes lines from Maya Angelou and related voices.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Henry David Thoreau

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried-up piece of roast goat.

Johann Sebastian Bach

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Not all those who wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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