Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONI 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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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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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 earth laughs in flowers.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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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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