Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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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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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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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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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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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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