Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhat you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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