A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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