The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONAlways do what you are afraid to do.
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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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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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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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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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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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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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