A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is not the length of life, but the depth.
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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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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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