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.
THOMAS CARLYLENo pressure, no diamonds.
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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 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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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