History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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A man lives by believing something.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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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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The 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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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