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.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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