Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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