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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFew 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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Every wall is a door.
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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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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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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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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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