A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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There 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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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