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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEnthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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