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.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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