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.
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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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