There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is not the length of life, but the depth.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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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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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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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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The years teach much the days never know.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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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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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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