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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway A Man’s Credo · 1963

Quotes

“The only sin is limitation.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

“Let every new year find you a better man.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and would embrace at last the universal sphere.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

“For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

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Self-improvement 6 Character 20 Reflection 10 Progress 6 Humility 6 Self-mastery 1 Nobility 1 Expansion 2 Human potential 10 Universality 1 Transcendentalism 32 Friendship 16 Truth 16 Integrity 19 Changing relationships 1 Limitation 1 Self-renewal 3