It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMost of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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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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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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