Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLETo 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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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