The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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Every wall is a door.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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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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A great man is always willing to be little.
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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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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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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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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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