The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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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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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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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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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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