The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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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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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