Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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 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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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