Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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