Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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