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 world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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