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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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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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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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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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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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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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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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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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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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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.
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