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.
THOMAS CARLYLENo 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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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