A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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 battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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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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