Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
THOMAS CARLYLEEgotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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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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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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