A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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