Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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