The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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