The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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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 person is important enough to make me angry.
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