Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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A man lives by believing something.
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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 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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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