"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"There is no one who does not exaggerate!"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exaggeration   

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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

Aurelius, Marcus on endurance
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us."

Wilde, Oscar on generations
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"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

Keller, Helen on desire   

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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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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

Gide, Andre on hatred
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"Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it."

Gide, Andre on truth
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"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."

Gide, Andre on giving
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"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."

Gide, Andre on peace
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"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."

Gide, Andre on death
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"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

Manson, Charles on insanity
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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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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on flowers
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"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on flowers
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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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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on gratitude
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"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on guests   

"To fill the hour -- that is happiness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on happiness
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"In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on integrity
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"A man's library is a sort of harem."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on libraries
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"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on knowledge
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"The years teach us much the days never knew."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on libraries
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"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opportunity
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