The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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