I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is not the length of life, but the depth.
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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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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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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Every wall is a door.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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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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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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