Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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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 laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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