“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius. ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think.This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. 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 ” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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