Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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