Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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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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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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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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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Every wall is a door.
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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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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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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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