The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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