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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Thomas Carlyle

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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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
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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Act Kind Possible Recognition
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
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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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself

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