"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on existence
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on focus
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"So far as a person thinks; they are free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on freedom
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"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"The more experiments you make the better."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on envy
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Ovid on fate
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"Self-command is the main discipline."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discipline
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eloquence
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character   

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character   

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"Self-trust is the first secret to success."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-trust
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"No man can help another without helping himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on service
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"Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on silence
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