A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery noble work is at first impossible.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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