Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe years teach much the days never know.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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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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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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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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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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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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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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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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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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