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.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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