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.
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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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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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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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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