To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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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 years teach much the days never know.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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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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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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