The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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