Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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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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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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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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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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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