Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe 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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The years teach much the days never know.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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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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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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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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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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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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