One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery 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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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