Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONSometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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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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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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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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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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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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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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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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