A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLENot what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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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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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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 past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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