To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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 battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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