Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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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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The earth laughs in flowers.
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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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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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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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Every wall is a door.
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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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