A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Guard 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.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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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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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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