Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLEEverywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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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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There are remedies for all things but death.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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