The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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