In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
THOMAS CARLYLEEverywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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 loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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