The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONCommon sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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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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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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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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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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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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Every wall is a door.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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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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