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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.

Thomas Carlyle

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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