Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEnthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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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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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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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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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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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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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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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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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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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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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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