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.
THOMAS CARLYLEHistory: A distillation of rumor.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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