Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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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 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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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