Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLENo 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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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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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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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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