Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONGuard 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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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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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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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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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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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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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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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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