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.
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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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent 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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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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When 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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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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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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