Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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