Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whol...
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who...
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All mankind love a lover.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sen...
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Life is our dictionary.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sen...
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These ...
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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What you are comes to you.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule t...
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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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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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited wit...
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass undergr...
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
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Fear always springs from ignorance
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, sh...
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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
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Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of chil...
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, cruc...
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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, c...
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will ...
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Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that too...
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One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
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The more reason, the less government.
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If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. - Ralph Wald...
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting --...
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriat...
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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You cannot see the mountain near
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must ...
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; ...
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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on...
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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never h...
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as ...
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She wa...
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
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There is no knowledge that is not power
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
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Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding he...
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Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a mi...
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Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air...
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
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Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add...
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prese...
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The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which command...
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
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Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous...
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Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere...
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Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its e...
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Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been...
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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast ...
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. W...
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Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modification...
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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Skill to do comes of doing
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man ...
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English...
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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and th...
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim ...
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The ancestor of every action is thought.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;...
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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for ...
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In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain ...
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter...
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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto hi...
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not ...
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birt...
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Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all ...
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The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him e...
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The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companions...
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Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
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Language is fossil poetry.
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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it
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I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something
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All life is an experiment.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him ev...
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at las...
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t...
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or ...
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the great...
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never...
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no ...
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do st...
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the...
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This...
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Today is a king in disguise.
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought s...
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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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Wherever there is power there is age.
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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any ot...
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have b...
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last ...
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in...
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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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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks con...
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your...
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicte...
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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t...
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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Music causes us to think eloquently.
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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