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!
THOMAS CARLYLEStop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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