The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEToday 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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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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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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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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