It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The first wealth is health.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
The earth laughs in flowers.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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