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 CARLYLEThere 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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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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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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