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Self Criticism

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But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Sir Thomas Browne

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I am Al Gore; I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

Al Gore (Jr.)

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But I am pigeon-liver’d, and lack gall
To make oppression bitter.

William Shakespeare

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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

James M. Barrie

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The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself…. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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