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.
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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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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