It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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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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