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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: preparedness, success
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The road is always better than the inn.”
    ― Cervantes
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    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: destiny, self-determination
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity
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  • #17
    “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
    ― Ronald E. Osborn
    tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: character, humanity
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Envy is ignorance,
    Imitation is Suicide.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: attitude, inspirational, life
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: confidence
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    “It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
    ― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
    tags: holding-back, life-lessons
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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