What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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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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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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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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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Every artist was first an amateur.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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