Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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