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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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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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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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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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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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