The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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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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When 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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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