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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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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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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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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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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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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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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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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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