Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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