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 EMERSONThe ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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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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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Every wall is a door.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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