A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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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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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 not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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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 invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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