The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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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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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 man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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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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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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