One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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A man lives by believing something.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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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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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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