Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWe are always getting ready to live but never living.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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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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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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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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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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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