They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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