The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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 man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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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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