History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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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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