Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat 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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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