It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTrust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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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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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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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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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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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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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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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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