Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe 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 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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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