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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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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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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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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 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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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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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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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