For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONA friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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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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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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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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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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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