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.
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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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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A great man is always willing to be little.
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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 wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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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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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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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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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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