The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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 merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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