Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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 mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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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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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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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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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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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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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Every wall is a door.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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