The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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