Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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