Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Who 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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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