The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLEA 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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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