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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFew 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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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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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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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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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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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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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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