For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

What you are comes to you.

What you are comes to you.

Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.

Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

The ancestor of every action is a thought

The ancestor of every action is a thought

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and...

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and...

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A good intention clothes itself with power

A good intention clothes itself with power

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who...

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who...

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

Men are respectable only as they respect

Men are respectable only as they respect

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for...

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for...

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Enjoy the times in which you are challenged in life, so that you may better...

Enjoy the times in which you are challenged in life, so that you may better...

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as...

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as...

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your...

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your...