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 CARLYLEEgotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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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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