Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt 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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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