Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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