Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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