I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeople do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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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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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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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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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Every wall is a door.
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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Be 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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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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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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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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