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.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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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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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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