No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLEBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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