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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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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 creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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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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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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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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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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