History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe 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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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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