What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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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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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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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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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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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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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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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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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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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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