People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMake the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Few 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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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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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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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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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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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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