None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThere is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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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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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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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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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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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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