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Ralph Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity
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Ralph Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley
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William Wordsworth
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.
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Henry Longfellow
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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