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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment

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“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.” ~ Ralph Waldo #Emerson
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ #Emerson
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We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. #Emerson
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“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The earth laughs in flowers.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. #Emerson
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! #Emerson #Thanksgiving
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Finish each day and be done with it. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. #Emerson
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We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. #Emerson
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.#Emereson
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. #Emerson
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In society, let this be thy aim, to put men in tune. Untune nobody. #Emerson
You can never do a kindness to soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. #Emerson
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Jesus, Luther, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh; to be great is to be misunderstood.
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