Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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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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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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