It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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.
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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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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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