No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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