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"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."
"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad."
"It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past"
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."
"If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."
"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."
"For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done."
"Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried."
"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do."
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."
"The world belongs to the energetic."
"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens."
"[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays."
"When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty."
"One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity."
"Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything."