Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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