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.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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