Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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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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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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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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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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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Every wall is a door.
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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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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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