Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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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.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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