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.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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