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.
THOMAS CARLYLEDoubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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