Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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