Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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 but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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