In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
THOMAS CARLYLEIf 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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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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