"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

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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"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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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

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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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on extremes and extremists
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on focus
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism
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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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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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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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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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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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"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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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

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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"If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on kindness
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"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on kings
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism."

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"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

Adams, Abigail on learning
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"Learning how to learn is life's most important skill."

Buzan, Tony on learning
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"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Churchill, Winston on learning
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"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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"Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival."

Deming, W. Edwards on learning
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"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."

Einstein, Albert on learning
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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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"The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on influence
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"The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze."

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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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