The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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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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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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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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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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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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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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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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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 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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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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