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.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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