What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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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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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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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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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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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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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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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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Every wall is a door.
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