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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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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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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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