For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Every wall is a door.
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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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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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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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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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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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