To be great is to be misunderstood.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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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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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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