Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLife is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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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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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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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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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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