Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery 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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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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!
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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