Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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A man lives by believing something.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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