Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEWho is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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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