Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  — Ralph Waldo EmersonCourage

• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  — Ralph Waldo EmersonCourage

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  — Ralph Waldo EmersonGrowth

• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  — Ralph Waldo EmersonGratitude

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• The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  — ConfuciusGrowth

• I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

  — Henry David ThoreauGrowth

• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  — Henry David ThoreauGrowth