A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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 past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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