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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhen you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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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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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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