Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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The 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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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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