History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLENothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A man lives by believing something.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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