A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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