It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
THOMAS CARLYLEConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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