When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLETell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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