Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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