Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
THOMAS CARLYLEOur 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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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