Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLELove is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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 world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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