Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLEA great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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