Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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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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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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