To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEven in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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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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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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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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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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You become what you think about all day long.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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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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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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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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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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