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!
THOMAS CARLYLE
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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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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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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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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There are remedies for all things but death.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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