Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLENo 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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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