History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLEOur grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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