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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. View quote
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My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. View quote
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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. View quote
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It is a happy talent to know how to play. View quote
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In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day. View quote
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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. View quote
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. View quote
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. View quote
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment. View quote
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Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Do the thing and you will have the power. View quote
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Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged. View quote
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares. View quote
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Moderation in all things, especially moderation. View quote
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. View quote
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Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault. View quote
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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake. View quote
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. View quote
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. View quote
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints. View quote
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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. View quote
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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing. View quote
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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. View quote
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