Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat 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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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