Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONGuard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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