Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLife is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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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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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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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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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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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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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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