People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEvery artist was first an amateur.
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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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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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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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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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Every artist was first an amateur.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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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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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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