Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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