People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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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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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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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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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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