I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo be great is to be misunderstood.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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