There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Our 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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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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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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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