History: A distillation of rumor.
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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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