Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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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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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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There 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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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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