A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
THOMAS CARLYLENo 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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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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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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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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