Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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