A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — 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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• Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

  — Henry David ThoreauGratitude

• Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.

  — Charles DickensGratitude

• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach.

  — Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGratitude