Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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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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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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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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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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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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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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