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!
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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