Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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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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