It is not the length of life, but the depth.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLet me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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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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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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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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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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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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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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