A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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