The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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There are remedies for all things but death.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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