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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWe acquire the strength we have overcome.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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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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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Every wall is a door.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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