A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat 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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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.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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