Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLEIf 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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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