Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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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 great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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