No person is important enough to make me angry.
THOMAS CARLYLETo 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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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A 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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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