It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
THOMAS CARLYLEOnce the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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