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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.

Thomas Carlyle

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
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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Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
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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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
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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Affection Crime Forever Love Misery Mom Myself Yourself
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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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness

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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