It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONHappiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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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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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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Every wall is a door.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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