Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
THOMAS CARLYLEIf 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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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