Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWithout 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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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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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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.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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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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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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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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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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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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