Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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