Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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 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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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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