No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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