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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONCommon sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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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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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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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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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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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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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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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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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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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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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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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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