For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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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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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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