Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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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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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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