They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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