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Nothing is more despicable
than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

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Quote from “Caged Bird” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/41917

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom

Maya Angelou

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Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows,
which the world knows not,
and oftentimes we call a man cold,
when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Quote from “King Henry VI, Part III”

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

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Quote from “Eleonora (1850)”

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence

Edgar Allan Poe

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I became insane,
with long intervals
of horrible sanity

Edgar Allan Poe

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Quote from “Alone” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/87400

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Maya Angelou

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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships

Helen Keller

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Unknown

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