I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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