Beauty without expression is boring.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMost of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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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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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 creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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