History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery noble work is at first impossible.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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To 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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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