Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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A man lives by believing something.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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