In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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It 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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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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