Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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