The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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