Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe 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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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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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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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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