The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLEJust in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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There are remedies for all things but death.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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