When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEvery artist was first an amateur.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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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.
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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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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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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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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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