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.
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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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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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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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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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