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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.

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
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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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
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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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
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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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth

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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