Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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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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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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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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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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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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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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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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The 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.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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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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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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