What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhat you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONYou are constantly invited to be what you are.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThere is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMost of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONA great man is always willing to be little.
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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeople do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONGuard 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 EMERSONThe 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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMany eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe years teach much the days never know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONDo the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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