Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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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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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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