There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery 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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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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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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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 eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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