Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
THOMAS CARLYLENot 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.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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 person is important enough to make me angry.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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