Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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