Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEven in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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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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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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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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