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.
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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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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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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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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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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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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