Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLife is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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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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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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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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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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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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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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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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