The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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